Introduction
Chapter I – The sporting institutions
Amateur sporting clubs: what economic model?
European professional sporting leagues: institutions at the service of a sporting logic?
North American professional sports leagues: institutions at the service of a financial logic?
Chapter II – The financing of professional sport
Stock market listing: a development lever for sports clubs?
Club deficits: structural financial instability?
Sports stadia (The Mega ones): what legitimacy for public funding?
Financial fair play: a tool to rationalise clubs’ financial management?
Naming: A new financial opportunity for clubs?
Club owners: capital at the service of sport?
Televised sport: broadcasting rights and tele-dependence?
Chapter III – The glorious uncertainty of sport
Competitive balance: what challenges to a central concept of sports economics?
Luxury tax: solidarity and uncertainty of outcome?
Regulation: How to reconcile balanced sporting competition with fair economic competition?
Rookie Draft: allocating new talent, balancing competition and maximising profits?
Salary cap: sporting or financial regulation?
Chapter IV – The professional sports labour market
Sports agents: what market power?
Bosman ruling: market deregulation and competition destabilisation?
Segmentation: why is the professional sports job market so highly segmented?
Superstars: why does the winner take all?
Tournament theory: can we guarantee an athlete’s best performance?
Third-party ownership: a controversial instrument?
Transfers: should the system be reformed?
Chapter V – The Internationalisation of Sport
Global public good: a choice between two models for a new global sports governance?
Macroeconomics of international sporting success: how to win medals?
The globalisation of sport: the domination of an economic logic?
Soft power: political instrumentalisation of sport?
Chapter VI – The Economic Impact of Sport
Opportunity cost: what policies should be implemented around mega-sporting projects?
Sport employment: what is the evaluation of the job creation potential of sport?
Legacy: what is the long-term impact of mega-sporting events?
Economic impact: developing a standard methodology?
The economic weight of sport: an imperfect solution?
Chapter VII – The social functions of sport
Volunteering: how to assess the value of volunteering in sport?
Cost-benefit: towards recognition of complementarity between quantitative approach and qualitative approach of the sporting phenomenon?
Evaluation: what decision-making tools are at the heart of sporting policies?
Externalities: how to define and internalise the effects linked to the sporting spectacle?
The future of sport: what sport in a world of degrowth?
Social utility: how can the social functions of sport be measured and recognised?
Value: a new decision-making tool based on the total economic value of the sporting spectacle?
Chapter VIII – Sporting abuses
Doping: a product attached to competition?
Economics of crime: the weaknesses of orthodox economic analysis of sporting abuses?
Sporting exception: what are the specificities of sport?
Taxes: an effective instrument to fight against sport's market failures?
Winner's curse: can we avoid the ‘curse of the winner’?
Index of acronyms