Sacheti, A., Paton, D. and Gregory-Smith, I. (2015) An Economic Analysis of Attendance Demand for One Day International Cricket. Economic Record. ISSN 0013-0249
Abstract
The future of One Day International (ODI) cricket has come under scrutiny following increasing competition from other formats of cricket. We identify trends in attendance demand by examining over 540 ODI matches played in Australia and England between 1981 and 2015. We use fixed effects and Tobit random effects models to isolate key determinants of attendance demand for ODI cricket and, in particular, the impact of uncertainty of outcome. We find that team strength has little independent effect on ODI attendances, but the uncertainty of the match outcome, as measured by the relative strengths of the teams over a long period of time, increases demand for ODI matches in England. Further, organising the ODI as a day/night (floodlit) game has a large positive impact on attendance in Australia.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Wiley. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Economic Record. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | demand; uncertainty of outcome; cricket |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Economics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Dec 2015 15:28 |
Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2017 01:38 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12239 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1475-4932.12239 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:92459 |