Revenue Sharing, Conjectures, and Scarce Talent in a Sports League Model

Journal of Sports Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 359-378

  Easton, Stephen T ^a   Rockerbie, Duane W ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

revenue sharing; talent conjectures; voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990338737     PISSN: 15270025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527002504267520     Document Type: Article

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