Breaking the Ice : The Economics of Hockey /

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 th...

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Other Authors: Frick, Bernd (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Series:Sports economics, management, and policy ; 16.
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Table of 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.