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Rules changes and competitive balance in European professional soccer evidence from an event study approach

KENT, Ryan A

Rules changes and competitive balance in European professional soccer evidence from an event study approach - Applied Economics Letters Volume , number , .

This study examines the effectiveness of successive rules changes on competitive balance, as measured by score differential in a match, over the history of seven European professional soccer leagues. Poisson regression results show that various rules changes do have an effect on match competitiveness in European professional soccer.


sports economics
competitive balance
event studies