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Students will gain an insight into essential parts of sports economics. on the basis of a socio-economic approach, students should acquire the ability to understand and assess sports economics and politics.

In addition to the discussion of the peculiarities of sport from an economic perspective, the following topics are discussed:

• the demand for sport competitions,
• economic characteristics of sports competitions,
• economic peculiarities of leagues,
• the labour market in sports,
• doping and
• sport development

Presentations by the lecturer and discussions, literatur review

written test, seminar paper

Daumann, F. (2019). Grundlagen der Sportökonomie (3rd ed.). Konstanz/München: UVK/Lucius.