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Does the NCAA’s Collegiate Model Promote Competitive Balance? Power-5 Conference Football Versus the NFL by Eckard, E. Woodrow

“…The disparity between athlete compensation and major sports revenues has produced criticisms of The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)’s…”
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The NCAA’s Graduation Success Rate: How Successful Is It? by Eckard, E. Woodrow

“…The Graduation Success Rate (GSR) plays a critical role supporting the NCAA’s Collegiate Model of amateur college athletics. The NCAA created the GSR to…”
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The Uncertainty-of-Outcome Hypothesis and the Industrial Organization of Sports Leagues: Evidence From U.S. College Football by Eckard, E. Woodrow

“…The uncertainty-of-outcome hypothesis (UOH) posits that sports fans value competitive contests, implying that competitive imbalance within a league will…”
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Why Regulate Insider Trading? Evidence from the First Great Merger Wave (1897-1903) by Banerjee, Ajeyo, Eckard, E. Woodrow

“…We use event-time methodology to study legal insider trading associated with mergers circa 1900. For mergers with "prospective" disclosures similar to today's,…”
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Do Colleges Get What They Pay For? Evidence on Football Coach Pay and Team Performance by Colbert, Gary J., Eckard, E. Woodrow

“…We use a data set of Football Bowl Subdivision (Division-IA) universities to investigate the hypothesis that higher coach pay leads to improved team…”
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The Revenue Gains from Multi-Tier Ticket Pricing: Evidence from Pop Music Concerts by Eckard, E. Woodrow, Smith, Marlene A.

“…We provide empirical estimates of the revenue benefits of multi-tier pricing at a major US pop music venue. Our unique sample includes data on the number of…”
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The Competitive Impact of Air Crashes: Stock Market Evidence by Bosch, Jean‐Claude, Eckard, E. Woodrow, Singal, Vijay

“…We examine stock market reactions to commercial air crashes to test the hypothesis that consumers respond by switching to rival airlines and/or flying less. We…”
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The impact of price discrimination on consumer surplus at popular music concerts by Eckard, E. Woodrow, Smith, Marlene A.

“…We estimate consumer surplus gains and losses from concert ticket price discrimination. Fans purchasing low-priced tickets enjoy a surplus gain of about $9.26…”
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Is the Bowl Championship Series a Cartel? Some Evidence by Eckard, E. Woodrow

“…The cartel view of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) implies that it creates an advantage for automatic qualifying (AQ) member schools relative to other…”
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Anti-Irish Job Discrimination circa 1880: Evidence from Major League Baseball by Eckard, E. Woodrow

“…Historians have generally presumed that Irish immigrants in the late nineteenth century suffered from ethnic job discrimination. However, empirical scholarship…”
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Anti-Irish Job Discrimination circa 1880: Evidence from Major League Baseball by Eckard, E Woodrow

“…Historians have generally presumed that Irish immigrants in the late nineteenth century suffered from ethnic job discrimination. However, empirical scholarship…”
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Baseball’s Blue Ribbon Economic Report: Solutions in Search of a Problem by Eckard, E. Woodrow

“…In July 2000, Major League Baseball published a report claiming a recent marked decline in competitive balance. The alleged cause is growing disparities in…”
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Free Agency, Competitive Balance, and Diminishing Returns to Pennant Contention by Eckard, E. Woodrow

“…This article argues that the 1976 introduction of free agency increased competitive balance in Major League Baseball. The evidence is based on a new empirical…”
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EPA enforcement, firm response strategies, and stockholder wealth: an empirical examination by Bosch, J.C., Eckard, E. Woodrow, Lee, Insup

“…We investigate the effect of EPA pollution control enforcement activities and firm response strategies on stockholders' wealth. We find that the market reacts…”
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An Empirical Test of the Free Rider and Market Power Hypotheses: A Comment by Eckard, E. Woodrow

“…Mueller and Geithman (1991) test the competing free rider (efficiency) and market power explanations of certain vertical restraints once used by the Sealy…”
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Retail price concentration, transaction costs, and price flexibility circa 1900 by Eckard, E. Woodrow

“…This paper studies a unique 1901 data set containing prices of three products obtained from grocery stores in over 1400 cities nationwide. A striking…”
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Are Mega-Mergers Anticompetitive? Evidence from the First Great Merger Wave by Banerjee, Ajeyo, Eckard, E. Woodrow

“…In the first event-time analysis of the great merger wave of 1897-1903, we find that the consolidations created value for merger participants of 12% to 18%. We…”
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The Origin of the Reserve Clause: Owner Collusion Versus “Public Interest” by Eckard, E. Woodrow

“…This article examines the creation of the first professional athletic labor market restriction over a century ago. In 1879, professional baseball club owners…”
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The "Law of One Price" in 1901 by Eckard, E. Woodrow

“…Price dispersion in 1901 is analyzed using a unique U.S. government survey yielding retail prices for four products at more than 1500 stores nationwide. Three…”
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The NCAA Cartel and Competitive Balance in College Football by ECKARD, E. WOODROW

“…The NCAA regulates college football player recruiting, eligibility, and compensation. The economic theory of cartels suggests that one consequence may be…”
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