The Institutional Framework for Doing Sports Business: Principles of EU Competition Policy in Sports Markets
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- Oliver Budzinski, 2011. "The Institutional Framework for Doing Sports Business: Principles of EU Competition Policy in Sports Markets," Working Papers 1103, International Association of Sports Economists;North American Association of Sports Economists.
- Budzinski, Oliver, 2012. "The institutional framework for doing sports business: Principles of EU competition policy in sports markets," Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers 70, Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics.
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Keywords
Sports business; competition policy; sporting rules; centralized marketing; sports economics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
- K21 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Antitrust Law
- D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
- M21 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - Business Economics
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2011-04-23 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-SPO-2011-04-23 (Sports and Economics)
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