Managerial Finance: Volume 47 Issue 6

Editorial

Rodney J. Paul, Shane Sanders

Expanding upon the weather: cloud cover and barometric pressure as determinants of attendance for NFL games

Rodney J. Paul, Justin Andrew Ehrlich, Jeremy Losak

Purpose of the study is to further expand insights into how weather impacts attendance at sporting events. With the NFL having only eight home games a year per team, it is more of…

Is offense worth more than defense and pitching? Marginal revenue product and revenue sharing in major league baseball

Justin Andrew Ehrlich, Joel M. Potter

Sports economists have consistently found that winning positively impacts team revenue fans prefer to allocate their entertainment dollars to winning teams. Previous research has…

The cost of players’ injuries to professional sports leagues and other sports organizations

Bhavneet Walia, Christopher John Boudreaux

Most literature studies have focused on direct treatment costs of injuries. This literature is extended to include the foregone playing time of players as an additional injury…

Recruiting talent in a global sports market: appraisals of soccer players' transfer fees

Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio, Francesc Pujol

The main goal of this paper is to evaluate the players' contribution and economic value in the soccer industry. Media visibility records provide us with comparable metrics to…

On the relationship between sport and financial performances: an empirical investigation

Luca Di Simone, Davide Zanardi

Our paper shows an empirical analysis of the European football companies to test the association between sport results, proxied by ranking position and financial performance in…

The impact of the 34th America's cup on taxable sales in the San Francisco bay area

Leo H. Kahane

An economic impact study conducted in 2010 predicted that hosting the 34th America's Cup in 2013 would result in $1.37 billion in total economic benefits to the San Francisco Bay…

Hosting the Olympics: why are we always getting the cost wrong?

Maroula Khraiche, Abhinav Alakshendra

In the last 50 years, every Olympics has experienced a major cost overrun. This paper explores the reasons for this cost underestimation and looks into the occurrence of the…

Investment review in sports leagues: financial evidence from Pakistan Super League

Rehan Aftab, Muhammad Naveed

The study invites seminal investigation on potential of investment returns in professional sports leagues. In line with scope of research, the analysis of this study brings into…

Financial performance of the United Kingdom's national non-profit sport federations: a binary logistic regression approach

Peter Omondi-Ochieng

The aim of this study was to predict the financial performance of the United Kingdom's (UK) national non-profit sport federations (NNSFs) using financial effectiveness indicators…

COVID-19 countermeasures, sporting events, and the financial impacts to the North American leagues

Justin Andrew Ehrlich, Shankar Ghimire, Maroula Khraiche, Mian Farrukh Raza

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) countermeasures will affect the financing of the North American leagues. In particular, we…