The designated player policy rule and attendance demand in major league soccer

Rewilak, J ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5337-8873, 2022. The designated player policy rule and attendance demand in major league soccer. Journal of Sports Economics. ISSN 1527-0025

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Abstract

Evidence suggests that Major League Soccer's designated player (DP) rule increased match-day attendance in its inaugural season leading to expansion of this policy. However, there is a need to examine whether these findings are robust. Therefore, this paper uses the DP rule as a natural experiment to identify its effect on match-day attendance using a difference-in-difference estimation strategy. In contrast to existing research, when using a difference-in-difference estimator, the statistically significant effect of DPs on attendance vanishes but may be recovered when omitting domestic DPs from the set of DPs.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Sports Economics
Creators:	Rewilak, J.
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Date:	1 November 2022
ISSN:	1527-0025
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1177/15270025221134234 DOI 1618644 Other
Rights:	© The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	21 Feb 2023 08:50
Last Modified:	21 Feb 2023 08:50
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/48369

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