Open AccessImpacts of the end of the reserve clause on the football [soccer] players transfer market
Author(s) -
Fábio Augusto Pera de Souza
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
revista ibero-americana de estratégia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2176-0756
DOI - 10.5585/ijsm.v4i1.70
Subject(s) - football , athletes , football players , property rights , property (philosophy) , economics , political science , microeconomics , law , medicine , philosophy , epistemology , physical therapy
Brazilian football [soccer] player market has suffered a significant change in its structure, with the end of the reserve clause in 2001. Among the possible economic consequences of the structural change is the alteration in the mobility of the players among the teams, given by the volume of transfers. In accordance with the concepts of the new economic system of the institutions, a hypothesis that the change in the property rights on the players has caused a significant increase in the number of transfers of athletes among teams was formulated. A research with players who had served the Brazilian Team between 1996 and 2005 confirmed the hypothesis that the free market brought an expressive increase in the volume of transfers, thus corroborating the economic theory.