Riding high: success in sports and the rise of doping cultures

Arbeitspapier

This article develops a socio-economic model that analyzes the doping decision of professional athletes. In their decision to use performance enhancing drugs athletes do not only evaluate the costs and benefits (in terms of potential rank improvement). They also take into account peer-group approval of using drugs. Peer-group approval is modelled as a lagged endogenous variable that depends on the share of drug using athletes in the history of a sport. This way, the model can explain multiple equilibria as doping cultures”. Besides the comparative statics of the equilibrium (how can a doping culture be eliminated?) the article also investigates how the doping decision is affected by standards set by the respective leader in a sport, e.g. Olympic qualification marks, and by the taste of victory, i.e. the disproportionate public veneration of winners.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Diskussionsbeitrag ; No. 372

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Relation of Economics to Social Values ; Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations ; Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior: General ; Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism ; Personnel Economics: General
• Thema: sport ; doping ; approval ; social dynamics ; weak athletes ; superheroes ; Professioneller Sport ; Drogenkonsum ; Betrug ; Soziale Beziehungen ; Sozialpsychologie ; Theorie ; Fahrradverkehr

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Strulik, Holger
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
• (wo): Hannover
• (wann): 2007

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/27182
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:20 MESZ