Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-271) and index.
Handbook of sports economics research : an overview / John Fizel -- Sports economics : the state of the discipline / R. Todd Jewell -- National Basketball Association / David J. Berri -- National Hockey League / John C. Leadley and Zenon X. Zygmont -- Major league baseball / John Fizel and Lawrence Hadley -- European football (soccer) / Victor A. Matheson -- Female intercollegiate athletes and women's athletics / Brad R. Humphreys -- The economics of individual sports : golf, tennis, track and NASCAR / Peter von Allmen -- Appendix : The National Football League conundrum / John Fizel -- Demand issues : the product market for professional sports / Anthony Krautmann and Lawrence Hadley -- Competitive balance in North American professional sports / Rodney Fort -- Team sports efficiency estimation and stochastic frontier models / Young Hoon Lee -- Econometric models in sports economics / Michael A. Leeds and Barbara Erin McCormick -- The theory of contests / Stefan Szymanski