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Limiting Player Lists In Sport: Who Really Wins?

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  • Phillip Hone

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A number of sports around the world impose caps on the number of players allowed on a team list. These arrangements are commonly defended on the grounds of maintaining the financial viability of the leagues by limiting salary demands on struggling clubs. However, these restrictions are also consistent with attempts to drive up the wages of listed players. This paper presents a formal test of the outcome of player list controls in the context of the Australian Football League. It is found that player list reductions have been at the expense of player wages and have done little to control the costs of fielding teams. Restrictions on total budgets rather than player wages seems a more effective cost control mechanism than controls on player numbers and/or salaries.

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  • Phillip Hone, 2005. "Limiting Player Lists In Sport: Who Really Wins?," Working Papers 2005_03, Deakin University, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:dkn:econwp:eco_2005_03
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    Keywords

    sport; restrictions on employment; wages;
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    JEL classification:

    • J40 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - General
    • J42 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets

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