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Producer Cartels in English League Football
Author(s) -
Arnold Anthony J.,
Benveniste Ivor
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1987.tb01900.x
Subject(s) - league , football , cartel , gee , business , economics , political science , management , advertising , industrial organization , law , mathematics , statistics , collusion , physics , astronomy , generalized estimating equation
The institutional arrangements of sport, like other forms of human activity, are increasingly susceptible to the analytical attentions of economists. Anthony Arnold, of the University of Essex, and Ivor Benveniste, Training Manager at Levy Gee Training, examine English League football to discover inefficient patterns of cross‐subsidisation, restrictive practices, a producer cartel and the exploitation of smaller clubs by larger.