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Apr 25, 2024
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2013-2014 HillBook (Class of 2017) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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ECO 244 - The Economics of SportsThree Credits
Spring Semester
The course analyzes the industry of sports, especially professional and big-time college sports, using and developing tools of economic analysis, mainly microeconomics. Topics include the salary structure of professional team sports and the effects of free agency; the factors affecting sports attendance; the value of sports programming to broadcasters, and the effect of television revenues; the effect of the NCAA on television contracts and student-athlete choices; the economic effects of professional sports franchises and stadia.
Prerequisite(s): ECO 176 and ECO 178 (or their corresponding First-Year Seminar equivalents) and completion of any Statistical Reasoning course.
Course may be applied to the American Studies program.
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