...Fabio Wagner; Mathias Schubert; Holger Preuss; Thomas Könecke Purpose The Premier League (PL) and the Bundesliga (BL) were chosen for this study due to their fundamentally different approaches to ownership regulation and the distribution of media revenues. Regulation in the PL is very liberal...

... that UEFA should pursue its efforts to scrutinise the level of clubs' player expenditures and that there is a need for a wider look at the FFP regulations. Originality/value This article provides further contribution to empirical studies on FFP effectiveness that have often been focused on a single...

...-field (-ice) performance of MLB and NHL. Given that MLB has adopted market-based tax incentives to regulate payroll (the competitive balance tax), and the NHL has imposed strict payroll limits (hard salary cap), the authors at once consider MLB’s innovative revenue-sharing system alongside the NHL’s...

...-mainz.de © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Organization Governance Regulation Financial doping Licencing Sport policy Sport, as often claimed by experts, is considered to be a reflection of society (Grupe, 1975). Besides, the idea of an interlinking between society and sport...

...Rasmus K. Storm Purpose The purpose of this paper is to argue for the necessity of regulating European club football financially, in order to create a fair structure of sporting competition. Design/methodology/approach By deploying the soft budget constraint approach – originally developed...