Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bird, Peter J. W. N.

Titel

The demand for league football

Ist Teil von

• Applied economics, 1982-12, Vol.14 (6), p.637-649

Ort / Verlag

London, etc: Chapman and Hall Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1982

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A demand equation is estimated for total Football League attendances for the period 1948/49 to 1979/80. Plausible values are obtained for the elasticities of demand with respect to income and to a price variable which includes the cost of travel to the stadium. The values imply that football spectating is an inferior good with a low price elasticity. Equations are also estimated for the League's separate divisions. The implications of the results for the Football League clubs are discussed.