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  Press Releases // 07.06.2024

  A Summer’s Tale for Social Cohesion?

  Major sporting events are often accompanied by discussions about whether they bring economic benefits to the host cities. The upcoming European Football Championship in Germany is no exception, as it has [...] and professor at the University of Mannheim, has commented on this matter: - “Hosting the European Football Championship is expected to cost German taxpayers around 650 million euros. This is a considerable [...] broadcasting important matches on public television. While there are supposed increases in revenue from sports tourism, more overnight stays, merchandise sales and temporary higher employment figures, economic
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  News // 23.08.2018

  Fair Competition in Football – Both on the Pitch and in Broadcasting

  n. When it comes to marketing the games, however, competition is nowhere to be seen. The German Football League (DFL) has the exclusive rights to market the games. This is a billion-euro enterprise, with [...] defined by law who has the right to broadcast matches. It is therefore difficult to say whether the football clubs are working together, that is, they have made some kind of arrangement, or whether these rights [...] German Federal Cartel Office therefore seeks to ensure that the current collective marketing of football broadcasting rights is not overly harmful to providers and consumers. When the TV broadcasting rights
• News // 29.11.2017

  Without Further Qualification, Only a Few Refugees Can Be Quickly Integrated into the Labour Market

  refugees involved in the inclusive football project HEIMSTÄRKE (“home strength”), which encourages the integration of refugees into society and the labour market through sport. ZEW education economist Friedhelm [...] the study and its possible implications for both policy-makers and refugees. - Does sport, in this context football, help refugees to integrate? The results of our study suggest this may indeed be the [...] conclusion that participation in sports activities can help to encourage integration. The majority of participants for instance said that they would enjoy attending the football project for more than two hours
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  Press Releases // 22.03.2017

  Promoting Integration Through Football

  of refugees participating in the HEIMSTÄRKE football project, which aims to promote integration into German society and the German labour market through sport. The study suggests that participation in the [...] Asylum' project in the Rhine-Neckar region. - HEIMSTÄRKE gives participants the opportunity to play football once a week and to take language courses, while also assisting them in their search for work. It
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  Press Releases // 08.09.2016

  Greater Polarisation and Less Competition in the German Bundesliga

  talented players in successful and, for that matter, financially strong football clubs, the first two divisions of German football, the 1st Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga, have suffered in terms of [...] above-average professional players are concentrated in leading football clubs, and how this development leads to a reduction in sporting competition. A high concentration of good players in high-ranking [...] a result, there is an increasingly high number of top-performing players in extraordinarily good football teams. These teams tend to win more games, which leads to a reduced level of competition. This is
• Publications // 19.08.2016

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Competitive Balance and Assortative Matching in the German Bundesliga

  distribution of player talent across association football clubs over time. Player talent is the most important prerequisite for team success in professional sports leagues and changes in players' assortativeness
• Publications // 15.05.2006

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Uncertainty of Outcome Versus Reputation: Empirical Evidence for the First German Football Division

  outcome and therefore the demand for football. Regarding this background information this paper analyses the determinants of match attendances in the German first football division.What kind of role plays [...] During the next few years, the German football industry will changedramatically. New distribution channels and initial public offerings willlead to large inflows of capital and hence funds for investment [...] the attendance: The higher the temperature the higher the demand for tickets. We conclude that a football fan is a rational agent in the microeconomic sense.