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A Theoretical Analysis of the Influence of Money Injections on Risk Taking in Football Clubs

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  • Egon Franck

    () (Department of Business Administration, University of Zurich)

  • Markus Lang

    () (Department of Business Administration, University of Zurich)

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Third party money injections of benefactors (sugar daddies) function as a bailout mechanism for otherwise insolvent football clubs. The successful implementation of the new UEFA "financial fair play" regulations will abrogate this bailout mechanism. We develop a theoretical model of a representative club and a sugar daddy to study the adverse incentive effects produced by the money injections of sugar daddies. We show that the existence of a sugar daddy induces the club to choose a riskier investment strategy and the more the sugar daddy commits to bailout the club, the more the clubs' optimal level of riskiness increases. Moreover, a private sugar daddy bails out the club less often than a public sugar daddy. Our model further shows that a "too-big-to-fail" phenomenon exists because it is optimal to always bailout a club if its market size is sufficiently large. Finally, we derive conditions under which the FFP and the pre-FFP regulations, respectively, are desirable from a welfare perspective.

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Paper provided by University of Zurich, Center for Research in Sports Administration (CRSA) in its series Working Papers with number 0046.

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Length: 27 pages
Date of creation: Mar 2013
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Handle: RePEc:rsd:wpaper:0046

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Keywords: Regulation; sports; UEFA; risk; bailout;

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  1. Peeters T. & Szymanski, S., 2012. "Vertical restraints in soccer: Financial Fiar Play and the English Premier League," Working Papers 2012028, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Applied Economics.

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