Rodney Fort's Sports
Economics
Chapter 12.
Taxes, Antitrust, and
Competition Policy
Links and
Fun
Updated to 3d
Edition
From your textbook:
Taxes, Antitrust, and Competition Policy Links, Current Topics:
- Amicus Brief (PDF): by
Economists arguing that the NFL should lose American Needle v. NFL (2009).
The opposing view is
here (PDF).
- How Complicated Competition Policy Can Get: A lesson from the NFL's choice on streaming Sunday Ticket. Elliot Turner at Wall Street Cheat Sheet.
- The "Jock"
Tax (or click for the PDF version): David Hoffman at the Tax Foundation on the revenue
potential and fairness of taxing out-of-state professional athletes.
- Packers Shareholders
: Check out what goes on for shareholders of the Green Bay Packers,
the oldest publicly owned (and only publicly owned at this point in time)
pro sports team.
Don't forget that all of the team sale price data are at the Sports
Business Data Pages!