Seminario de investigación en turismo

El jueves 8 de junio a las 10 h tendrá lugar en modalidad virtual un Seminario de investigación en turismo a cargo de Juan de Dios Tena Horrillo (Università di Sassari, Italia) titulado Does a super league tournament harm domestic leagues? Evidence from the basketball’s Euroleague (la presentación se realizará en español). Será en modalidad virtual. Por información y datos de acceso comunicarse a: Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.

Resumen
Sports leagues are traditionally considered natural monopolies. Therefore, understanding how different sports competitions interact is a fundamental economic question. In particular, it is unclear how a closed (or semi-closed) elite tournament affects the level of competition in domestic leagues. On the one hand, it facilitates access to more financial resources that can increase the gap between big and small teams at the national level. But on the other hand, participating in more competitions could also imply more fatigue and lack of concentration in the domestic league given the greater demand that is placed on playing talent. This paper studies the effect of participating in the basketball’s Euroleague tournament on team performance in eight national leagues. We find that Euroleague participation harms national performance reducing the probability of victory by around 9% in big leagues. However, no significant effect was found for small leagues. A potential transmission channel of this effect is the higher reduction in the number of days between matches in big leagues relative to small leagues. Overall, the present paper suggests that a superleague tournament could increase competitive balance, at least in the strongest national leagues. We discuss the political implications of this result.