Sport Economics

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The economics of sport is both the application of economics to sport, and the use of sport to inform economics. The former is often thought about in terms of “moneyball”, “sabremetrics” or “sport analytics”, but need not only relate to issues of recruitment and on-field tactics – important strategic decisions that they are. Other aspects of sports club and league management and organisation are very much part of the purview of applying economics to sport. In our cluster we have economists looking at both of these dimensions – an example of the latter being the modelling of disaggregated attendance demand numbers at sporting events, and considering the impact of sport on measured crime and other economic indicators.

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