Dr. Markus Lang
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Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Forthcoming
Competition Effects in a Liberalized Railway Market (with Marc Laperrouza and Matthias Finger), forthcoming in Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade.
A Contest Model of a Professional Sports League with Two-Sided Markets (with Helmut Dietl, Egon Franck and Tobias Duschl), forthcoming in Journal of Economics and Statistics.
The Lead Factory Concept: Benefiting from an Efficient Knowledge Transfer (with Patricia Deflorin, Helmut Dietl and Maike Scherrer-Rathje), forthcoming in Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management.
Salary Cap Regulation in Professional Team Sports (with Helmut Dietl, Egon Franck and Alexander Rathke), forthcoming in Contemporary Economic Policy.
2011
The Combined Effect of Salary Restrictions and Revenue Sharing in Sports Leagues (with Helmut Dietl and Alexander Rathke), Economic Inquiry, Vol. 49, Issue 2, pp. 447-463.
The Sugar Daddy's Game: How Wealthy Investors Change Competition in Professional Team Sports (with Martin Grossmann and Philipp Theiler), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Vol. 167, Issue 4, pp. 557-577.
Transitional Dynamics in a Tullock Contest with a General Cost Function (with Helmut Dietl and Martin Grossmann), B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Vol. 11, Issue 1, Article 17.
Executive Pay Regulation: What Regulators, Shareholders, and Managers Can Learn from Major Sports Leagues (with Helmut Dietl and Tobias Duschl), Business and Politics, Vol. 13, Issue 2, Article 6.
Competition and Welfare Effects of VAT Exemptions (with Helmut Dietl, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner), B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 11, Issue 1, Article 19.
Competitive Balance and Revenue Sharing in Sports Leagues with Utility-Maximizing Teams (with Helmut Dietl and Martin Grossmann), Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 12, Issue 3, pp. 284-308.
Gehaltsobergrenzen und Luxussteuern: Erkenntnisse aus dem professionellen Mannschaftssport (with Helmut Dietl and Tobias Duschl), Swiss Journal of Business Research and Practice (Die Unternehmung), Sonderband 1, pp. 169-180.
2010
Revenue Sharing and Competitive Balance in a Dynamic Contest Model (with Helmut Dietl and Martin Grossmann), Review of Industrial Organization, Vol. 36, Issue 1, pp. 17-36. Download Paper
Corruption in Professional Sumo: An Update on the Study of Duggan and Levitt (with Helmut Dietl and Stephan Werner), Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 11, Issue 4, pp. 383-396.Download Paper
RFID-based Entry into the German B2B Parcel Market and its Effect on Competitive Strategies, Prices and Market Shares: The Case of Red Parcel Post (with Helmut Dietl, Martin Lutzenberger and Stephan Wagner), Journal of Strategic Management Education, Vol. 5, Issue 3-4, pp. 125-150. Download Paper
The Economic Consequences of Foreigner Rules in National Sports Leagues (with Alexander Rathke and Marco Runkel), Région et Développement, Vol. 31, 47-64.Download Paper
The Effect of Luxury Taxes on Competitive Balance, Club Profits, and Social Welfare in Sports Leagues (with Helmut Dietl and Stephan Werner), International Journal of Sport Finance., Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 41-51, February 2010. Download Paper
2009
Social Welfare in Sports Leagues with Profit-Maximizing and/or Win-Maximizing Clubs (with Helmut Dietl and Stephan Werner), Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 76, Issue 2, pp. 375-396, October 2009.Download Paper
The Effect of Salary Caps in Professional Team Sports on Social Welfare (with Helmut Dietl and Alexander Rathke), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 9 (2009), Article 17.Download Paper
Governance of Professional Sports Leagues - Cooperatives versus Contracts (with Helmut Dietl, Egon Franck and Tariq Hasan), International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 29, Issue 2, pp. 127–137, 2009.
Revenue Sharing, Reserve Clause and Salary Caps in Professional Team Sports Leagues (with Helmut Dietl, Egon Franck and Alexander Rathke), International Journal of Global Business and Economics, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 44-50, 2009.
2008
The Effect of Gate Revenue-Sharing on Social Welfare (with Helmut Dietl), Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 26, Issue 3, pp. 448-459, 2008.Download Paper
Overinvestment in Team Sports Leagues – A Contest Theory Model (with Helmut Dietl and Egon Franck), Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 55, Issue 3, pp. 353–368, 2008.Download Paper
Why Football Players may benefit from the "Shadow of the Transfer System" (with Helmut Dietl and Egon Franck), European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 26, Issue 3, pp. 129-151, 2008.Download Paper
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Collections
Impact of VAT Exemptions in the Postal Sector on Competition and Welfare (with Helmut Dietl, Christian Jaag, Martin Lutzenberger and Urs Trinkner), in Reinventing the Postal Sector in an Electronic Age, edited by M. A. Crew and P. R. Kleindorfer. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 267–280 (2011).
Market Entry and Competitive Strategies in the German B2B Parcel Market (with Helmut Dietl, Martin Lutzenberger and Stephan Wagner), Progress in the Competitive Agenda in the Postal and Delivery Sector, edited by M. A. Crew and P. R. Kleindorfer. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 280–297 (2009). Order Book
Article Contributions to Books
Contest Theory and its Applications in Sports (with Helmut Dietl, Egon Franck and Martin Grossmann), forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Sports Economics, edited by S. Shmanske and L. Kahane. New York, USA: Oxford University Press. Download Working Paper
International Sports League Comparisons (with Helmut Dietl and Rodney Fort), forthcoming in Handbook on International Sport Management and Policy, edited by Paul Downward. London, UK: Routledge.
Organizational Differences between US Major Leagues and European Leagues: Implications for Salary Caps (with Helmut Dietl, Egon Franck and Alexander Rathke), forthcoming in Economics of Sports Leagues: An International Perspective, edited by L. Lenten. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.Download Working Paper
Reports
Umsetzungsvarianten einer aktiven öffentlichen FTTH-Policy für die Schweiz (with Matthias Finger, Christian Jaag, Martin Lutzenberger and Urs Trinkner), Study on behalf of Sunrise (2009).Download Report
Bestimmung des Regulierungsbedarfs aus ökonomischer Sicht: Angemessenheit und Folgen einer funktionalen oder strukturellen Trennung von Swisscom (with Matthias Finger, Christian Jaag, Martin Lutzenberger and Urs Trinkner), Study on behalf of Swisscom (2008).Download Report
Books
The Economics of Professional Team Sports Leagues, Shaker Publishing, Aachen (2009).Order Book
Working Papers
The Effects of Introducing Advertising in Pay TV: A Model of Asymmetric Competition between Pay TV and Free TV (with Helmut Dietl and Panlang Lin), ISU Working Paper Series No. 153 (2012). Download Working Paper
Determinants of the Optimal Network Configuration and the Implications for Coordination (with Patricia Deflorin, Helmut Dietl and Eric Lucas), ISU Working Paper Series No.152 (2011). Download Working Paper
On the Release of Players to National Teams (with Oliver Gürtler and Tim Pawlowski), ISU Working Paper Series No.151 (2011). Download Working Paper
Why Taxing Executives' Bonuses Fosters Risk-Taking Behavior (with Helmut Dietl and Martin Grossmann), ISU Working Paper Series No.150 (2011). Download Working Paper
Explaining Cooperative Enterprises through Knowledge Acquisition Outcomes (with Helmut Dietl, Tobias Duschl and Martin Grossmann), ISU Working Paper Series No. 68 (2011). Download Working Paper
Incentive Effects of Bonus Taxes (with Helmut Dietl, Martin Grossmann and Simon Wey), ISU Working Paper Series No.140 (2010). Download Working Paper
The Role of Negative Intra-Side Externalities in Two-Sided Markets (with Helmut Dietl and Panlang Lin), ISU Working Paper Series No. 121 (2010). Download Working Paper