Do Fans Care About Compliance to Doping Regulations in Sports? The Impact of PED Suspension in Baseball-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Do Fans Care About Compliance to Doping Regulations in Sports? The Impact of PED Suspension in Baseball

Published:2015-05-29 Issue:4 Volume:18 Page:323-350
ISSN:1527-0025
Container-title:Journal of Sports Economics
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Sports Economics

Author:

Cisyk Jeffrey¹,Courty Pascal²

Affiliation:

1. University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

2. University of Victoria and CEPR, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Abstract

There is little evidence in support of the main economic rationale for regulating athletic doping that doping reduces fan interest. The introduction of random testing for performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) by Major League Baseball (MLB) offers unique data to investigate the issue. The announcement of a PED violation (a) initially reduces home-game attendance by 8%, (b) has no impact on home-game attendance after 15 days, and (c) has a small negative impact on the game attendance for other MLB teams. This is the first systematic evidence that doping decreases consumer demand for sporting events.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1527002515587441

Reference27 articles.

1. An Analysis of Major League Baseball Attendance, 1969 - 1987

2. Explaining Game-to-Game Ticket Sales for Major League Baseball Games Over Time

3. The economics of doping

4. Sport as a Common Property Resource

Cited by 23 articles. 订阅此论文施引文献订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献

1. Cooler Bobbleheads Prevail: Bobblehead Character Type and Impact on Attendance at Major League Baseball Games;Sport Marketing Quarterly;2024-03

2. Unfair, Innocent, Flamed: Examining How the Chinese Public Perceived Sun Yang’s 8-Year Doping Sanction;International Journal of Sport Communication;2022-12-01

3. Should football care about its fans’ trust? A study into the consequences of a large-scale fraud scandal on sports fans’ integrity perceptions;Managing Sport and Leisure;2022-11-23

4. Performance Quality Preference Heterogeneity in Major League Baseball;Journal of Sports Economics;2022-09-07

5. The case against the criminalization of doping;The International Sports Law Journal;2022-07-12