Arbeitspapier

Sports business and the theory of multisided markets

Despite still being younger than a decade, the theory of multisided market has offered numerous valuable insights for the analysis of non-ordinary industries in which a supplier serves two distinct customer groups that are indirectly interrelated by externalities. Examples include payment systems, matching agencies, commercial media and software platforms. However, professional sports markets have largely been neglected so far in this kind of research although they possess the characteristics of multisided markets. We contribute to filling this gap by describing the platform elements of professional suppliers of sports events and outlining problems where an application of this theoretical framework is likely to provide valuable insights and to add to the existing knowledge. Among these problems are integrative pricing strategies of sports clubs towards such different customer groups like attendees, broadcasters, sponsors, etc., including their welfare and antitrust implications, design decisions of sports associations in order to promote positive feedback loops among the customer groups as well as strategies to reinforce positive externalities among customer groups and alleviate negative ones.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 2008,11

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
Entertainment; Media
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Business Economics
Thema
sports economics
two-sided markets
multisided platforms
professional sports business
pricing strategies
broadcasting rights

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Budzinski, Oliver
Satzer, Janina
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
(wo)
Marburg
(wann)
2008

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Budzinski, Oliver
  • Satzer, Janina
  • Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

Entstanden

  • 2008

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