Contents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Bill Gerrard PART I ATTENDANCE DEMAND 1. R.A. Hart, J. Hutton and T. Sharot (1975), A Statistical Analysis of Association Football Attendances 2. Peter J.W.N. Bird (1982), The Demand for League Football 3. Nicholas Jennett (1984), Attendances, Uncertainty of Outcome and Policy in Scottish League Football 4. Bruce Walker (1986), The Demand for Professional League Football and the Success of Football League Teams: Some City Size Effects 5. David Peel and Dennis Thomas (1988), Outcome Uncertainty and the Demand for Football: An Analysis of Match Attendances in the English Football League 6. S.M. Dobson and J.A. Goddard (1992), The Demand for Standing and Seated Viewing Accommodation in the English Football League 7. S.M. Dobson and J.A. Goddard (1995), The Demand for Professional League Football in England and Wales, 1925-92 8. Mark Baimbridge, Samuel Cameron and Peter Dawson (1996), Satellite Television and the Demand for Football: A Whole New Ball Game? 9. Robert Simmons (1996), The Demand for English League Football: A Club-level Analysis 10. David Forrest and Robert Simmons (2002), Outcome Uncertainty and Attendance Demand in Sport: The Case of English Soccer 11. David Forrest, Robert Simmons and Patrick Feehan (2002), A Spatial Cross-sectional Analysis of the Elasticity of Demand for Soccer PART II THE SPORTING PRODUCTION FUNCTION 12. Richard Audas, Stephen Dobson and John Goddard (1997), Team Performance and Managerial Change in the English Football League 13. Rick Audas, Stephen Dobson and John Goddard (1999), Organizational Performance and Managerial Turnover 14. Fiona Carmichael, Dennis Thomas and Robert Ward (2000), Team Performance: The Case of English Premiership Football 15. Peter Dawson, Stephen Dobson and Bill Gerrard (2000), Estimating Coaching Efficiency in Professional Team Sports: Evidence from English Association Football 16. Dieter J. Haas (2003), Technical Efficiency in the Major League Soccer 17. R.H. Koning (2003), An Econometric Evaluation of the Effect of Firing a Coach on Team Performance PART III THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS LABOUR MARKET AND TRANSFER SYSTEM 18. Peter J. Sloane (1969), The Labour Market in Professional Football 19. F. Carmichael and D. Thomas (1993), Bargaining in the Transfer Market: Theory and Evidence 20. Robert Simmons (1997), Implications of the Bosman Ruling for Football Transfer Markets 21. Alan Speight and Dennis Thomas (1997), Arbitrator Decision-making in the Transfer Market: An Empirical Analysis 22. Fiona Carmichael, David Forrest and Robert Simmons (1999), The Labour Market in Association Football: Who Gets Transferred and For How Much? 23. Peter Antonioni and John Cubbin (2000), The Bosman Ruling and the Emergence of a Single Market in Soccer Talent 24. Thomas Ericson (2000), The Bosman Case: Effects on the Abolition of the Transfer Fee 25. Bill Gerrard and Steve Dobson (2000), Testing for Monopoly Rents in the Market for Playing Talent: Evidence from English Professional Football 26. Stefan Szymanski (2000), A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues 27. Spiros Bougheas and Paul Downward (2003), The Economics of Professional Sports Leagues: Some Insights on the Reform of Transfer Markets 28. Eberhard Feess and Gerd Muehlheusser (2003), Transfer Fee Regulations in European Football 29. Claudio Lucifora and Rob Simmons (2003), Superstar Effects in Sport: Evidence from Italian Soccer Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I COMPETITIVE BALANCE AND LEAGUE STRUCTURE 1. N. Jennett and P.J. Sloane (1985), The Future League Football: A Critique of the Report of the Chester Committee of Enquiry 2. John A. Cairns (1987), Evaluating Changes in League Structure: The Reorganization of the Scottish Football League 3. Thomas Hoehn and Stefan Szymanski (1999), The Americanization of European Football 4. Stefan Szymanski (2001), Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer 5. Roger G. Noll (2002), The Economics of Promotion and Relegation in Sports Leagues: The Case of English Football 6. Luigi Buzzacchi, Stefan Szymanski and Tommaso M. Valletti (2003), Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome: Open Leagues, Closed Leagues and Competitive Balance 7. Stephen Dobson and John Goddard (2004), Revenue Divergence and Competitive Balance in a Divisional Sports League PART II INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE 8. Peter J. Sloane (1971), The Economics of Professional Football: The Football Club as a Utility Maximiser 9. Stefan Szymanski and Ron Smith (1997), The English Football Industry: Profit, Performance and Industrial Structure 10. S.M. Dobson and J.A. Goddard (1998), Performance and Revenue in Professional League Football: Evidence from Granger Causality Tests 11. Stephen Dobson and John Goddard (1998), Performance, Revenue, and Cross Subsidization in the Football League, 1927-1994 12. Stephen Dobson, John Goddard and Carlyn Ramlogan (2001), Revenue Convergence in the English Soccer League 13. Stephen Hall, Stefan Szymanski and Andrew S. Zimbalist (2002), Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll: The Cases of Major League Baseball and English Soccer 14. Bill Gerrard (2005), A Resource-Utilization Model of Organizational Efficiency in Professional Sports Teams PART III MATCH PREDICTION AND BETTING MARKET EFFICIENCY 15. Peter F. Pope and David A. Peel (1989), Information, Prices and Efficiency in a Fixed-Odds Betting Market 16. Mark J. Dixon and Stuart G. Coles (1997), Modelling Association Football Scores and Inefficiencies in the Football Betting Market 17. Michael Cain, David Law and David Peel (2000), The Favourite-longshot Bias and Market Efficiency in UK Football Betting 18. David Forrest and Robert Simmons (2000), Forecasting Sport: The Behaviour and Performance of Football Tipsters 19. David Forrest and Robert Simmons (2000), Making Up the Results: The Work of the Football Pools Panel, 1963-1997 20. Tim Kuypers (2000), Information and Efficiency: An Empirical Study of a Fixed Odds Betting Market 21. Martin Crowder, Mark Dixon, Anthony Ledford and Mike Robinson (2002), Dynamic Modelling and Prediction of English Football League Matches for Betting PART IV INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 22. Ruud H. Koning (2000), Balance in Competition in Dutch Soccer 23. Jaume Garcia and Placido Rodriguez (2002), The Determinants of Football Match Attendance Revisited: Empirical Evidence From the Spanish Football League 24. Manuel Espitia-Escuer and Lucia Isabel Garcia-Cebrian (2004), Measuring the Efficiency of Spanish First-Division Soccer Teams Name Index