Market Power in the National Football League

Much of the sport economics literature is able to demonstrate that teams have downward-sloping demand curves that imply market power, but there has been no formal test of this hypothesis. This paper provides an initial empirical test of market power for the NFL during the 1995 to 1999 seasons. We em...

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Published in:International journal of sport finance 2008-11, Vol.3 (4), p.239-244
Main Authors: Brook, Stacey, Fenn, Aju J
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Capital costs
Consumer Price Index
Demand curves
Elasticity of demand
market power
Market shares
National Football League
Price elasticity
price-cost margin
Professional football
Studies
Variables
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Market shares
National Football League
Price elasticity
price-cost margin
Professional football
Studies
Variables
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