Quansah, T. K., Lang, M., & Frick, B. (2025). The Multi-Club Ownership Model: Between Myth, Expectation, and Empirical Evidence for Sporting Success<\/a>. Working Paper.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Arrigo, M., Gomez-Gonzalez, C. & Lang, M. (2025). When good luck turns against you: Evidence on performance responses to noisy feedback<\/a>. Working Paper.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Siewertsen, M., Lang, M., & Quansah, T. K. (2025). When Interest Does Not Convert: Lessons on Ticketing, Demand, and Attendance from the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup<\/a>. Working Paper.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Gao, J., Lang, M., & Jiang, Y. (2025). Assessing the Green Legacy of the 2008 Olympics: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Urban Park Green Space Expansion in Beijing<\/a>. Working Paper.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rajagopal, S., Brodmann, L., Caneppele, S., Gogishvili, D., Konstantopoulos, I., Lang, M., Schoch, L. & M\u00fcller, M. (2025). A definition and model for sustainability in major sports events<\/a>. Working Paper.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Quansah, T. & Lang, M. (2024). Do Controversial Companies Pay Higher Sponsorship Fees? Evidence From Betting-Industry Sponsors in Association Football<\/a>. Working Paper<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most recent publications:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Henriques Pereira, M., Dietl, H. M., Lang, M., & Orlowski, J. (2025). New brooms sweep clean, old brooms know the corners: The effects of managerial replacement on employee performance<\/a>. International Journal of Human Resource Management<\/em> (forthcoming)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Henriques Pereira, M. & Lang, M. (2025). Transforming Talent into Performance: Efficiency Heterogeneity, Strategic Behavior, and Welfare in Sports Leagues<\/a>. Sports Economic Review (forthcoming)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gao, J., Lang, M., & Jiang, Y. (2025). Assessing Air Quality Improvements During the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: A Case for Sustainable Urban Management<\/a>. Cleaner Production Letters<\/em> (forthcoming).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mustafi, Z., & Lang, M. (2025). Regulation and management of European sport leagues<\/a>. In M. Mrkonjic, E. Bayle, C. Klenk & D. Schwizer (Eds.), Sport Management in Europe: Perspectives and Implications for Practice<\/em> (pp. 92-109). Edward Elgar Publishing. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4337\/9781035333141.00020<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lang, M., Gogishvili, D., & M\u00fcller, M. (2025). What Makes Mega-Events Profitable? Determinants of Revenues and Costs of the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup<\/a>. Journal of Global Sport Management<\/em> (forthcoming)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quansah, T. & Lang, M. (2025). Deriving pleasure from other people’s pain: The influence of vicarious pain on viewing intentions for violent sports<\/a>. Journal of Business Research<\/em> (forthcoming)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dietl H., M\u00fcller S., Henriques Pereira M., & Lang M. (2025). Performance under pressure and its impact on compensation: Evidence from professional basketball<\/a>. Journal of Economic Psychology (forthcoming)<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mustafi, Z., Bayle, E., & Lang, M. (2025). The Economic and Regulatory Differences Between Professional Football and Ice Hockey in Switzerland<\/a>. Sport in Society<\/em>, 28(4), 511-532.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moulard, J., Lang, M., & Andreff, W. (2025). The influence of public subsidies on strategic decision-making and resource allocation: the case of France’s new football stadiums<\/a>. Soccer & Society, <\/em>26(6), 978-1001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quansah, T. K., Buraimo, B., & Lang, M. (2024). Determining<\/a> the price of football: an analysis of matchday ticket prices in the English Premier League<\/a>. European Sport Management Quarterly<\/em>, 24(3), 764-784.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quansah, T. K., Lang, M., & Frick, B. (2024). Racial bias in the stands? Investigating customer-based discrimination in European soccer.<\/a> Applied Economics<\/em>, 56(54)1-15. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 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<\/a>. Frontiers in Behavioral Economics<\/em>, Vol 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zhu, X., Lang, M., & Dietl, H. M. (2023). Content quality assurance on media platforms with user-generated content<\/a>. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research<\/em>, 18<\/em>(3), 1660-1686.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fakataulavelua, A., Lang, M., & Moulard, J. (2023). Streaming the beautiful game: Exploring big tech’s growing presence in the soccer industry<\/a>. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living<\/em>, 5<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Frick, B., Quansah, T. K., & Lang, M. (2023). Talent concentration and competitive imbalance in European soccer<\/a>. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living<\/em>, 5<\/em>, 1148122.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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<\/a>. The BE Journal of Theoretical Economics<\/em>, 23<\/em>(1), 291-326.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moulard, J., Lang, M., & Dermit-Richard, N. (2022). Soft Budget Constraints in French Football through Public Financing of Stadiums<\/a>. Sustainability<\/em>, 15<\/em>(1), 135.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grossmann, M., Lang, M., & Dietl, H. M. (2021). A dynamic contest model of platform competition in two-sided markets<\/a>. Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research<\/em>, 16<\/em>(6), 2091-2109.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quansah, T., Frick, B., Lang, M., & Maguire, K. (2021). The importance of club revenues for player salaries and transfer expenses\u2014how does the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) impact the English Premier League?<\/a> Sustainability<\/em>, 13<\/em>(9), 5154.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Martignoni, D., Keil, T., & Lang, M. (2020). Focus in searching core\u2013periphery structures<\/a>. Organization Science<\/em>, 31<\/em>(2), 266-286.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bayle, E., Lang, M., & Moret, O. (2020). How professional sports clubs exploit a heterogeneous local potential: the case of Swiss professional ice hockey<\/a>. Sport in Society<\/em>, 23<\/em>(3), 433-451.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPeer-reviewed Publications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n