The Increasing Competitive Balance in Major League Baseball

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 373-387

  Horowitz, Ira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Economic models; Major league baseball

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000438416     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007799730191     Document Type: Article

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