Working Papers
Lang, M., Gogishvili, D., & Müller, M. (2024). What Makes Mega-Events Profitable? Determinants of Revenues and Costs of the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup. Working Paper.
Quansah, T. & Lang, M. (2024). Do Controversial Companies Pay Higher Sponsorship Fees? Evidence From Betting-Industry Sponsors in Association Football. Working Paper
Müller, S., Henriques Pereira, M. , Dietl, H. M. & Lang, M. (2024). Performance under pressure and its impact on compensation. Working Paper
Quansah, T. & Lang, M. (2024). Exulting in their pain: Violence and vicarious pain as motivational factors for spectatorship – Evidence from mixed martial arts. Working Paper
Mustafi, Z., & Lang, M. (2024). Regulation and Management of European Sports Leagues–The Case of Swiss Professional Football. Working Paper
Mustafi, Z., Bayle, E., & Lang, M. (2024). The Economic and Regulatory Differences Between Professional Football and Ice Hockey in Switzerland. Working Paper.
Henriques Pereira, M. & Lang, M. (2024). Accuracy (not always) pays off: The effects of inaccurate player talent valuation in team sports leagues. Working Paper
Moulard, J., Lang, M., & Andreff, W. (2023). Public Subsidies and Good Governance in Professional Football: The Case of France’s New Stadiums. Working Paper.
Henriques Pereira, M., Dietl, H. M., Lang, M., & Orlowski, J. (2023). New brooms sweep clean, old brooms know the corners: The effects of managerial replacement on employee performance. Working Paper
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Most recent publications:
Quansah, T. K., Buraimo, B., & Lang, M. (2024). Determining the price of football: an analysis of matchday ticket prices in the English Premier League. European Sport Management Quarterly, 24(3), 764-784.
Quansah, T. K., Lang, M., & Frick, B. (2024). Racial bias in the stands? Investigating customer-based discrimination in European soccer. Applied Economics, 1-15.
Dietl, H. M., Lang, M., Orlowski, J., & Wegelin, P. (2024). The Effect of the Initial Distribution of Labor-Related Property Rights on the Allocative Efficiency of Labor Markets. Frontiers in Behavioral Economics, Vol 3.
Zhu, X., Lang, M., & Dietl, H. M. (2023). Content quality assurance on media platforms with user-generated content. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 18(3), 1660-1686.
Fakataulavelua, A., Lang, M., & Moulard, J. (2023). Streaming the beautiful game: exploring big tech’s growing presence in the soccer industry. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 5.
Frick, B., Quansah, T. K., & Lang, M. (2023). Talent concentration and competitive imbalance in European soccer. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 5, 1148122.
Dietl, H., Lang, M., & Lin, P. (2023). The effects of introducing advertising in pay TV: a model of asymmetric competition between pay TV and free TV. The BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, 23(1), 291-326.
Moulard, J., Lang, M., & Dermit-Richard, N. (2022). Soft Budget Constraints in French Football through Public Financing of Stadiums. Sustainability, 15(1), 135.
Grossmann, M., Lang, M., & Dietl, H. M. (2021). A dynamic contest model of platform competition in two-sided markets. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 16(6), 2091-2109.
Quansah, T., Frick, B., Lang, M., & Maguire, K. (2021). The importance of club revenues for player salaries and transfer expenses—how does the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) impact the English Premier League? Sustainability, 13(9), 5154.
Martignoni, D., Keil, T., & Lang, M. (2020). Focus in searching core–periphery structures. Organization Science, 31(2), 266-286.
Bayle, E., Lang, M., & Moret, O. (2020). How professional sports clubs exploit a heterogeneous local potential: the case of Swiss professional ice hockey. Sport in Society, 23(3), 433-451.
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