Paper #555

Títol:

The determinants of football match attendance revisited: Empirical evidence from the Spanish Football League

Autors:

Jaume Garcia i Plácido Rodríguez

Data:

Juny 2001

Resum:

An attendance equation is estimated using data on individual games played in the Spanish First Division Football League. The specification includes as explanatory factors: economic variables, quality, uncertainty and opportunity costs. We concentrate the analysis on some specification issues such as controlling the effect of unobservables given the panel data structure of the data set, the type of functional form and the potential endogeneity of prices. We obtain the expected effects on attendance for all the variables. The estimated price elasticities are smaller than one in absolute value as usually occurs in this literature but are sensitive to the specification issues.

Paraules clau:

Attendance, price elasticity, panel data

Codis JEL:

C23, L83

Àrea de Recerca:

Economia Laboral, Pública, de Desenvolupament i de la Salut

Publicat a:

Journal of Sports Economics, vol. 3, p. 18-38, 2002

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