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| Author: | Feess, E. Muehlheusser, G. |
| Title: | Transfer fee regulations in European football |
| Journal: | European Economic Review
2003 : AUG, VOL. 47:4, p. 645-668 |
| Index terms: | Sports industry Employment contracts Pay Europe |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The paper analyzes the impact of three different transfer fee systems on payoffs, contract lengths, training and effort incentives in European football. The different regimes, being used until 1995 ("pre-Bosman"), currently in use ("Bosman"), and recently approved ("Monti") differ with respect to the transfer fee an initial club is entitled to depending on whether a player has a valid contract or not. It is shown that the different systems differ only with respect to the contract length if the contract which maximizes the expected joint surplus of the initial club and the player is feasible under each system. Otherwise, regime P is strictly dominated by regime B in terms of expected social welfare. Regime M leads to higher effort but lower incentives to invest in training compared to system B. |
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