The Economics of Sports Facilities and Their Communities
自1950年代以来，纳税人一直是私人职业体育队所用体育场馆的主要投资者。本文基于经济推理和实证证据，反驳了体育设施能促进地方经济的说法，并揭示了球队所有者如何利用垄断地位从分散的纳税人那里获取经济租金，最后提出了改革建议。
Since the 1950s, taxpayers have been the primary investors in stadia built for the use of privately-owned professional sports teams. Team owners have argued that sports facilities boost local economic activity; however, economic reasoning and empirical evidence suggest the opposite. Public support for stadia is also driven by demand for community image, and owners of sports teams supply a scarce input into image enhancement--participation in the major league--for which they have been able to extract monopoly rents from dispersed taxpayers. We suggest reforms to dissipate the monopoly sports leagues exercise when negotiating with host communities for their teams.