... impact Efficiency Major league baseball Minor league baseball Stadiums Despite the lofty perception that teams and professional sporting leagues are useful economic development tools, most academic research has failed to support this contention. Ex post analysis of professional...

...Associate Professor Angel Barajas; Marta Brosed Lázaro; Manuel Espitia-Escuer; Lucía I. García-Cebrián Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to evaluate the performance of Spanish first-division basketball teams, in terms of efficiency, by defining previously a productive...

...Harald Dolles; Sten Söderman; Alexander Kern; Michael Schwarzmann; Armin Wiedenegger Purpose The purpose of this research paper is to prove the superiority of a two‐stage data envelopment analysis compared to a one‐stage approach in measuring a football club's efficiency. Moreover it provides best...