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Competitive Balance and Market Size in Major League Baseball: A Response to Baseball's Blue Ribbon Panel

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Martin Schmidt ()
David Berri ()

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Review of Industrial Organization.

Volume (Year): 21 (2002)
Issue (Month): 1 (August)
Pages: 41-54
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Keywords: Competition; Gini coefficient; major league baseball; market size;

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  1. Blass, Asher A, 1992. "Does the Baseball Labor Market Contradict the Human Capital Model of Investment?," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 74(2), pages 261-68, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. La Croix, Sumner J & Kawaura, Akihiko, 1999. "Rule Changes and Competitive Balance in Japanese Professional Baseball," Economic Inquiry, Oxford University Press, vol. 37(2), pages 353-68, April.
  3. Craig Depken, 1999. "Free-Agency and the Competitiveness of Major League Baseball," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer, vol. 14(3), pages 205-217, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Scully, Gerald W, 1974. "Pay and Performance in Major League Baseball," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 64(6), pages 915-30, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Simon Rottenberg, 1956. "The Baseball Players' Labor Market," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 64, pages 242. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  6. Schmidt, Martin B, 2001. "Competition in Major League Baseball: The Impact Expansion," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 8(1), pages 21-26, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. yamamura, eiji, 2006. "Team Payroll, Competitive Balance, and Team Performance in the Japan Professional Baseball League: A Study using 1993-2004 Panel Data," MPRA Paper 10836, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
  2. Daniel Mizak & Anthony Stair & Armond Rossi, 2005. "Assessing alternative competitive balance measures for sports leagues: a theoretical examination of standard deviations, gini coefficients, & the index of dissimilarity," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 12(5), pages 1-11. [Downloadable!]
  3. Allen R. Sanderson & John J. Siegfried, 2003. "Thinking About Competitive Balance," Working Papers 0318, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University. [Downloadable!]
  4. Anthony C. Krautmann & Lawrence Hadley, 2006. "Dynasties versus pennant races: competitive balance in major league baseball," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 27(4), pages 287-292. [Downloadable!]
  5. Daniel Mizak & John Neral & Anthony Stair, 2007. "The adjusted churn: an index of competitive balance for sports leagues based on changes in team standings over time," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 26(3), pages 1-7. [Downloadable!]
  6. Daniel Mizak & Anthony Stair, 2004. "The relationship between payroll and performance disparity in major league baseball: an alternative measure," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 12(9), pages 1-14. [Downloadable!]
  7. Martin B. Schmidt & David J. Berri, 2004. "Convergence and clustering in major league baseball: the haves and have nots?," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 36(18), pages 2007-2014, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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