Rule changes and competitive balance in Japanese professional baseball.

Does “competitive balance” in professional baseball improve with a change in the rules for allocating new players? Using data from Japan's two professional baseball leagues, we investigate how the change from an open-bidding regime to a player draft regime affected competitive balance between 1958 a...

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Published in:	Economic Inquiry Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 353 - 369
Main Authors:	La Croix, Sumner J., Kawaura, Akihiko
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell April 1999
Subjects:	Baseball Baseball players Sporting rules Professional sports Japan
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost