RODNEY FORT
Biographic Data
| ID | 5754599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | RODNEY FORT |
| GIVEN NAMES | RODNEY |
| FAMILY NAME | FORT |
| SIGNATURE | FORT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4610-6663 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hard Ball: The Abuse of Power in Pro Team Sports
Sports Myths and Why They’re Wrong
The Sports Business in The Pacific Rim: Economics and Policy
Managerial Objectives: A Retrospective on Utility Maximization in Pro Team Sports
This is an essay review of the literature on utility maximization as a managerial objective in pro team sports. It ends up that there is a heretofore‐unrecognized parallel development of the idea, in English football by Sloane [ Scottish Journal of Political Economy (1971), 17 , 121] and in North American pro sports by Quirk and El Hodiri, presented in that same year but not published as a conference proceeding until 1974. I review these works an…
Competitive Balance: Time Series Lessons from the E nglish P remier L eague
Structural break points in the F irst D ivision/ E nglish P remier L eague time series of competitive balance identify an E arly P eriod, a Pre‐ W orld W ar II P eriod, a Post‐ W ar P eriod, and a M odern P eriod. The E arly P eriod corresponds to technology diffusion (defense and tactics) along with important economic structural imposition by leagues. The war periods are common to many time series. The M odern P eriod's sharp decline in balance …
Rational Expectations and Pro Sports Leagues
We put a new set of shoes on that old workhorse, the competitive talent market (CTM) model in sports economics. There exist unique rational expectations equilibria for both national football league (NFL‐type leagues) and major league baseball (MLB‐type leagues) under the CTM model. A cursory statistical test fails to reject the empirical implications for the NFL‐type league. The model also suggests empirical tests of whether or not talent demand …
European and North American Sports Differences(?)
Past comparative work argues that the differences between European and North American sports dramatically outweigh any similarities. This paper explores the arguments that fans, sports organizations, and team objectives are different in the two regions and offers a set of questions that must be answered if, indeed, the opposite is not true. In addition, insights gained from the overriding similarities are offered concerning competitive balance, l…
Whether one votes and how one votes
Economics
A recursive treatment of the hurdles to voting
Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports
The ideological component of Senate voting: Different principles or different principals
The median voter, setters, and non-repeated construction bond issues
Perceptions, fear, and economic loss: An application of prospect theory to environmental decision making
Normal Backwardation and the Inventory Effect
The existence of backwardation in futures markets remains an intriguing and controv ersial issue. The authors show that a backwardation equilibrium can o ccur in a true futures market when participants are identical (degree of risk aversion, level of commodity commitments for long and short hedgers, or probability beliefs) using Hendrik J. Houthakker's comple tely neglected notion of an inventory effect that results in a patter n in the nearness …
A recursive treatment of the hurdles to voting
The ideological component of Senate voting: Different principles or different principals
Managerial Objectives: A Retrospective on Utility Maximization in Pro Team Sports
This is an essay review of the literature on utility maximization as a managerial objective in pro team sports. It ends up that there is a heretofore‐unrecognized parallel development of the idea, in English football by Sloane [ Scottish Journal of Political Economy (1971), 17 , 121] and in North American pro sports by Quirk and El Hodiri, presented in that same year but not published as a conference proceeding until 1974. I review these works an…
European and North American Sports Differences(?)
Past comparative work argues that the differences between European and North American sports dramatically outweigh any similarities. This paper explores the arguments that fans, sports organizations, and team objectives are different in the two regions and offers a set of questions that must be answered if, indeed, the opposite is not true. In addition, insights gained from the overriding similarities are offered concerning competitive balance, l…
Whether one votes and how one votes
The median voter, setters, and non-repeated construction bond issues
Perceptions, fear, and economic loss: An application of prospect theory to environmental decision making
Competitive Balance: Time Series Lessons from the E nglish P remier L eague
Structural break points in the F irst D ivision/ E nglish P remier L eague time series of competitive balance identify an E arly P eriod, a Pre‐ W orld W ar II P eriod, a Post‐ W ar P eriod, and a M odern P eriod. The E arly P eriod corresponds to technology diffusion (defense and tactics) along with important economic structural imposition by leagues. The war periods are common to many time series. The M odern P eriod's sharp decline in balance …
The median voter, setters, and non-repeated construction bond issues
Perceptions, fear, and economic loss: An application of prospect theory to environmental decision making
Normal Backwardation and the Inventory Effect
The existence of backwardation in futures markets remains an intriguing and controv ersial issue. The authors show that a backwardation equilibrium can o ccur in a true futures market when participants are identical (degree of risk aversion, level of commodity commitments for long and short hedgers, or probability beliefs) using Hendrik J. Houthakker's comple tely neglected notion of an inventory effect that results in a patter n in the nearness …
Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports
The ideological component of Senate voting: Different principles or different principals
A recursive treatment of the hurdles to voting
Economics
Whether one votes and how one votes
European and North American Sports Differences(?)
Past comparative work argues that the differences between European and North American sports dramatically outweigh any similarities. This paper explores the arguments that fans, sports organizations, and team objectives are different in the two regions and offers a set of questions that must be answered if, indeed, the opposite is not true. In addition, insights gained from the overriding similarities are offered concerning competitive balance, l…
Rational Expectations and Pro Sports Leagues
We put a new set of shoes on that old workhorse, the competitive talent market (CTM) model in sports economics. There exist unique rational expectations equilibria for both national football league (NFL‐type leagues) and major league baseball (MLB‐type leagues) under the CTM model. A cursory statistical test fails to reject the empirical implications for the NFL‐type league. The model also suggests empirical tests of whether or not talent demand …
Competitive Balance: Time Series Lessons from the E nglish P remier L eague
Structural break points in the F irst D ivision/ E nglish P remier L eague time series of competitive balance identify an E arly P eriod, a Pre‐ W orld W ar II P eriod, a Post‐ W ar P eriod, and a M odern P eriod. The E arly P eriod corresponds to technology diffusion (defense and tactics) along with important economic structural imposition by leagues. The war periods are common to many time series. The M odern P eriod's sharp decline in balance …
The Sports Business in The Pacific Rim: Economics and Policy
Managerial Objectives: A Retrospective on Utility Maximization in Pro Team Sports
This is an essay review of the literature on utility maximization as a managerial objective in pro team sports. It ends up that there is a heretofore‐unrecognized parallel development of the idea, in English football by Sloane [ Scottish Journal of Political Economy (1971), 17 , 121] and in North American pro sports by Quirk and El Hodiri, presented in that same year but not published as a conference proceeding until 1974. I review these works an…
Sports Myths and Why They’re Wrong
Hard Ball: The Abuse of Power in Pro Team Sports
Economics (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Microeconomics (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sports Analytics and Performance (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works)