Ground sharing between cricket and football in Australia
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2016
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Frost, L.
Lightbody, M.
Halabi, A.K.
Carter, A.J.
Borrowman, L.
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Pomfret, R.
Wilson, J.K.
Wilson, J.K.
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Source details - Title: Sports through the lens of economic history, 2016 / Pomfret, R., Wilson, J.K. (ed./s), Ch.6, pp.89-105
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Shared use of grounds allowed Australian cricket and football to subsidize each other, but cartel arrangements that determined the use of stadiums and the distribution of benefits and costs between sports may have been less than optimal. Estimation of deadweight losses from the use of stadiums is not possible in the absence of a counterfactual specifying the level of demand if the behaviour of cartel members had been coordinated more effectively. Archival, financial and attendance report data can be used to estimate increases in actual demand under alternative scenarios. In Melbourne and Adelaide, the controlling bodies of cricket and football uncured significant losses in welfare from joint use of their cities’ major stadium, due to the importance they attached to non-monetary aspects of utility.
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Copyright 2016 Richard Pomfret and John K. Wilson