Full Description
This book provides a survey of the academic research and knowledge on the economics and management of professional hockey. While professional football, baseball, and basketball have been the focus of sports economists for decades, professional hockey has been left out of most economic analyses of the sports industry. This book fills that gap by presenting a selection of research focusing specifically on hockey, such as labor relations and player behavior in the NHL, salary determination and player careers, ticket demand and ticket pricing, and emerging topics such as diversity and discrimination. Expanding the available literature dramatically, this book will be an important tool for researchers as well as sports managers, and students at the advanced undergraduate and graduate level.
Contents
Introduction.- 1. From Strikes to Lockouts: Consequences of the Shift in the Balance of Power from the Players' Union to the Owners in the National Hockey League.- 2. An Exploration of Dynamic Pricing in the National Hockey League.- 3. Fighting as a Profit-Maximizing Strategy: The American Hockey League.- 4. The Effect of "Stars" on Attendance - NHL Players in the German and Czech Hockey League.- 5. The Sources of the Cultural or Language Diversity Effects in the National Hockey League.- 6. If you can play, you get the pay!? A Survey on Salary Discrimination in the National Hockey League.- 7. Team-Level Referee Discrimination in the National Hockey League.- 8. Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL.- 9. Handedness, Performance and Compensation.
