The Determinants of Football Match Attendance Revisited: Empirical Evidence from the Spanish Football League

UPF Economics and Business Working Paper No. 555

Posted: 15 Nov 2002

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Jaume García

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences

Plácido Rodriguez

Universidad de Oviedo - Facultad de Economicas

Abstract

An attendance equation is estimated using data on individual games played in the Spanish First Division Football League. The specification includes as explanatory factors: economic variables, quality, uncertainty and opportunity costs. We concentrate the analysis on some specification issues such as controlling the effect of unobservables given the panel data structure of the data set, the type of functional form and the potential endogeneity of prices. We obtain the expected effects on attendance for all the variables. The estimated price elasticities are smaller than one in absolute value as usually occurs in this literature but are sensitive to the specification issues.

Keywords: Attendance, price elasticity, panel data

JEL Classification: C23, L83

Suggested Citation

García Villar, Jaume and Rodriguez Guerrero, Plácido, The Determinants of Football Match Attendance Revisited: Empirical Evidence from the Spanish Football League. UPF Economics and Business Working Paper No. 555, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=310225

Jaume García Villar (Contact Author)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences ( email )

Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27
Barcelona, 08005
Spain

Plácido Rodriguez Guerrero

Universidad de Oviedo - Facultad de Economicas ( email )

Campus del Cristo, s/n
Oviedo, Asturias 33071
Spain

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