Customer preferences, attendance and the racial structure of professional basketball teams

Applied Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 179-186

  Burdekin, Richard C K ^a   Idson, Todd L ^b  

^a Claremont McKenna College ^*  (Jamaica)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 84963145002     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036849108841062     Document Type: Article

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