Research Line 2: Leagues & Competitions
This Research Line intends to contribute to optimizing the design of sports leagues and competitions based on empirical (demand) studies. A focus is put on disentangling the relevance of different uncertainty, surprise and suspense elements for sport consumers. As such, studies in this Research Line are closely linked to research on decision making under uncertainty in other contexts, such as financial and insurance markets.
Research Line 2 is embedded into the Institute’s Research Line Performance. Selected studies were conducted on behalf of leagues (such as Major League Soccer) and funded with research grants from the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).
Selected journal publications
- Exploring entertainment utility from football games, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 223, 185-198, 2024. (co-authored by T. Pawlowski, D. Rambaccussing, P. Ramirez, J. Reade, & G. Rossi).
- Nationalistic bias among international experts: Evidence from professional ski jumping, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 124(1), 278-300, 2022. (co-authored by A. Krumer, F. Otto & T. Pawlowksi).
- Emotional Cues and the Demand for Televised Sports: Evidence from the UEFA Champions League. Journal of Sports Economics, 24(8), 993-1025, 2023. (co-authored by T. Richardson, G. Nalbantis & T. Pawlowski).
- Substitution Effects and the Transnational Demand for European Soccer Telecasts. Journal of Sports Economics, 24(4), 407-422, 2023. (co-authored by G. Nalbantis, T. Pawlowski & D. Schreyer).
- Competition and fan substitution between professional sports league. Review of Industrial Organization, 61, 21-43, 2022. (co-authored by T. Wallrafen, G. Nalbantis & T. Pawlowski)
- US Demand for European Soccer Telecasts – A Between-Country Test of the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis. Journal of Sports Economics, 20(6), 797-818, 2019. (co-authored by G. Nalbantis & T. Pawlowski).
- Substitution in sports – The case of lower division football attendance. Journal of Sports Economics, 20(3), 319-343, 2019 (co-authored by T. Wallrafen, T. Pawlowski, & C. Deutscher).
- Perceived game uncertainty, suspense and the demand for sport. Economic Inquiry, 56(1), 173-192, 2018 (co-authored by T. Pawlowski, G. Nalbantis & D. Coates)
- On the release of players to national teams. Journal of Sports Economics, 16(7), 695-713, 2015 (co-authored by O. Gürtler, M. Lang & T. Pawlowski, T).
- Testing the uncertainty of outcome hypothesis in European professional football - A stated preference approach. Journal of Sports Economics, 14(4), 341-367, 2013 (authored by T. Pawlowski).
- Top clubs’ performance and the competitive situation in European domestic football competitions. Journal of Sports Economics, 11(2), 186-202, 2010 (co-authored by T. Pawlowski, C. Breuer & A. Hovemann).