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League Structure & Stadium Rent Seeking —The Antitrust Role Reconsidered, Haddock David, Jacobi Tonja, Matthew Sag
League Structure & Stadium Rent Seeking —The Antitrust Role Reconsidered, Haddock David, Jacobi Tonja, Matthew Sag
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Professional North American sporting teams receive enormous public funding for new and renovated stadiums after threatening to depart their hometowns, or by actually moving elsewhere. In contrast, English sporting teams neither receive much public money for such projects, nor move towns. This Article argues that no inherent cultural or political transatlantic variations cause the differences; rather, it is the industrial organization of sports in the two countries-the structure of league control-that enables rent-seeking by American teams but not by their English counterparts. Cross-country time series data contrasting American professional football and baseball stadiums with English soccer grounds support our claim, …
Antitrust’S Democracy Deficit, Harry First, Spencer Weber Waller
Antitrust’S Democracy Deficit, Harry First, Spencer Weber Waller
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