Tag: Bernd Frick

The aim of the Journal of Sports Economics is to further research in the area of sports economics by bringing together theoretical and empirical research in a single intellectual venue The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Set-level Strategic and Psychological Momentum in Best-of-three-set Professional Tennis Matches by Craig A. Depken, II, John M. Gandar, and Dmitry A. Shapiro.

IJSF serves as a high-level forum for the dissemination of current research on sport finance topics. The mission to communicate to sport industry executives and managers the practical benefits of research on finance related to current practice. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Player Pricing Mechanisms and the Daily Fantasy Sport Chance Versus Skill Debate by Jeremy M. Losakl.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: THE COMPETITION FOR GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF MAJOR SPORTS EVENTS: WHY DO SOME APPLICANTS PASS THE NEEDLE’S EYE? by Eva Lechner & Harry Arne Solberg.

Not knowing how a game of sports will end is said to heighten the attraction of watching it. This is the subject of a recent anthology, Outcome Uncertainty in Sporting Events: Winning, Losing and Competitive Balance edited by Plácido Rodríguez, Stefan Kesenne & Brad R. Humphreys (Edward Elgar). Kjetil K. Haugen has spent a fair amount of time and thought on the Uncertainty of Outcome hypothesis, which is evident in his review.

IJSF serves as a high-level forum for the dissemination of current research on sport finance topics. The mission to communicate to sport industry executives and managers the practical benefits of research on finance related to current practice. Editor’s pick from the current issue: NOLYMPIA IN TYROL: DETERMINANTS OF VOTING BEHAVIOR IN THE REFERENDUM FOR THE 2026 INNSBRUCK-TYROL WINTER GAMES by Pamela Wicker and Bernd Frick.

The International Journal of Sport Finance (IJSF) is published quarterly and serves as a high-level forum for the dissemination of current research on sport finance topics on a worldwide basis. A fundamental mission of the journal is to communicate to sport industry executives and managers the practical benefits of research on finance related to current practice.

Harry Arne Solberg reviews The Oxford Handbook of Sport Economics in two volumes, The Economics of Sports and Economics Through Sports, edited by Stephen Shmanske and Leo H. Kahane.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport Management, edited by Leigh Robinson, Packianathan Chelladurai, Guillaume Bodet & Paul Downward, gets a constructively critical, thoroughly readable, and vastly instructive review by Cecilia Stenling.

In his knowledgeable review of Handbook of Research on Sport and Business, an anthology from Edward Elgar edited by Sten Söderman and Harald Dolles, Hans Lundberg cleverly uncovers and balances its weak points as well as its strengths.