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University of Bradford
ID-4220M
Economics of LeisureAssessment: One essay of 1,500 – 2,000 wordsSubmission Date: 17th August 2009 before 3 pm
Pemberton P 0.01
英国留学生论文指导 Failure to submit TWO copies of your work on paper and an electronic copy using Blackboard by this deadline will result in a mark of 0%
You are advised to plan your work carefully and back-up your work. Computing and printing problems will NOT be accepted as reasons for non-submission
Read pages 36-39 of your Student Handbook before you start your essay
Write the exact title of the essay question at the top of your answer
For guidance on essay writing please see the Economics Undergraduate Handbook.
This essay will form 100% of your assessment mark for this course.
Answer ONE question
1. Explain how the concept of leisure is dealt with in Becker’s model of the allocation of time. Discuss the relevance of this model with respect to an aspect of household behaviour of your own choice.
2. Explain which economic models are most relevant to analysing competition between television companies. Discuss the relevance of non-price factors in the competitive process.
University of Bradford
ID-4220MEconomics of Leisure
Assessment: One 1,500 – 2,000 Essay
Submission Date: Wednesday 29th April 2009, 3pm
Room P0.6 Pemberton Building
Failure to submit TWO copies of your work on paper and an electronic copy using Blackboard by this deadline will result in a mark of 0%
You are advised to plan your work carefully and back-up your work. Computing and printing problems will NOT be accepted as reasons for non-submission
Read pages 36-39 of your Student Handbook before you start your essay
This assignment will form 100% of your assessment mark for this course.
Answer ONE Question:
1. Consider whether the current system of allocating broadcasting revenues is optimal for clubs in the sport sector. Please use soccer and another sport of your choosing for comparative analysis.
2. ‘The use of compulsory license fees to subsidise the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is effectively killing off the rival duopolist (ITV) in free-to-air television provision’. Discuss with reference to appropriate economic theory.
3. This is not a standard essay; you are required to read the following specific item popularly known as the Carter Report:
Review of National Sport Effort and Resources, Introduction and Executive Summary, Patrick Carter, March 2005.
(You may also want to read the additional document of supporting evidence)
Note: Your answer should not be confined to this source and should draw on relevant economic literature.
i. What kind of document is this and why was it written?
ii. Identify the economic benefits of sport and sporting excellence that are documented in this report.#p#分页标题#e#
iii. Critically assess the attempts made in this report to link sporting achievements with the reduction of levels of obesity.
iv. Critically assess the comment on p. 19 that “Informal sport accounts for a significant proportion of all sporting activity and is cheap to deliver yet historically has gone relatively unsupported”.
v. Discuss the application of a standard supply and demand model to establish whether the issues highlighted of rapid fall off rates (by age) in sport participation and increasingly sedentary leisure pursuits are due to changes in underlying tastes and alternatives or to declining provision of sports facilities and human capital investment.
vi. Compile a list of the most important types of information (in terms of policy relevance) that are missing from this document and see if you can obtain some more recent evidence on the items you have identified.
4. It is common for local and national government to attempt to promote arts and culture because these are seen as socially desirable. Explain why there might be market failure preventing optimal choices of arts and culture in the absence of intervention. Discuss the relative merits of spending taxpayers' money on giving free tickets to students to attend theatres, operas and art galleries versus lowering the price of these events by directly subsidising performance.
ID-4221M Economics of Leisure 2007/8
– COURSE OUTLINE AND READING LIST
Please note there is no specific book that covers all this material but there are a number of texts that cover specific areas:
Andreff, W. & Szymanski,S. 2006. Handbook on the Economics of Sport.
Edward Elgar.
Bowmaker,S. (ed.) Economics Uncut: A Complete Guide to Life, Death, and
Misadventure, Edward Elgar.
Caves, R. 2000. Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce.
Cambridge Ma. Harvard University Press
Collins,A. 2005 Cities of Pleasure: Sex and the Urban Socialscape Routledge
Cooke,A 1994. The Economics of Leisure and Sport. Routledge.
Douglas,M. and Isherwood,B. 1979. The world of goods. Towards an
anthropology of consumption.
Gerrard, B. (ed.) The Economics of Association Football, Edward Elgar
Cheltenham. 2006.
Goodwin,N.R. Ackerman, F and Kiron,D. (Eds.) The Consumer Society Island Press, Washington, DC
Heilbrun,J. and Gray,C.M. 2001. The Economics of Art and Culture. 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press.
Jeanrenaud,C. & Kesenne,S. 2006. The Economics of Sport and Media.Edward Elgar.
Preuss,H. 2006. The Economics of Staging the Olympics. Edward Elgar
Scitovsky,T. 1986. Human Desire and Economic Satisfaction. Wheatsheaf Books.
Towse, R. (ed.) 2003. A Handbook of Cultural Economics. Edward Elgar. Cheltenham.
Throsby,C.D. & Withers, G.A. 1979. The Economics of the Performing Arts. Edward Arnold. London.
英国留学生论文指导Zimbalist,A. & Woods,R.A. The Economics of Sports. Edward Elgar. 2003.
Topics and additional reading guidance
1. DISCUSSION ON WHAT IS AND IS NOT LEISURE-HISTORY OF IDEAS OF ECONOMICS OF LEISURE
Smith, Marshall, Veblen, Basic miro labour –leisure model, goods characteristics. Beckers household production model. You are advised to read initially the income-leisure chapter in any intermediate micro book or in a labour economics textbook –compare this with Douglas and Isherwood and entries by Hirsch , Scitovsky and others in Goodwin et al.
2. SPECIAL TOPIC- TELEVISION
Additional reading-
Frey B.S. ,Benesch, C. and Stutzer A (2007) Does watching TV make us happy? Journal of Economic Psychology 28(3) June 293-313
3. MODELS OF THE LEISURE SECTOR FIRM
See Throsby and Withers,Chs 2 and 4
Additional reading-J. Goddard Sloane, P.J. Economics of Sport in Simon Bowmaker(ed), Economics Uncut: A Complete Guide to Life, Death, and Misadventure, Edward Elgar.2005.
Kushner, R.J. & Brooks,A.C.2000. The One-Man Band by the Quick Lunch Stand: Modeling Audience Response to Street Performance. Journal of Cultural Economics. 24(1) 65-77
4.Properties of leisure demand, price and income elasticities, risk addiction, age etc , the nature of loyalty/fanship and collections.
Additional reading-
Giles,D.C., Pietzrykowski,S. & Clark,K.E. (2007) The psychological meaning of personal record collections and the impact of changing technological forms. Journal of Economic Psychology 28(4) August 2007 429-443
5.Pricing of leisure goods, equilibrium, arbitrage.
Additional reading -
Courty,P. 2003. Some economics of ticket resale. Journal of Economic Perspectives 17(2) , 85-97 reprinted in Towse,E.(ed.) 2007. Recent Developments in Cultural Economics.Elgar .
6. Industry sector- movies and music, technical change, broadcasting – sport broadcasting
Additional reading -Simon Bowmaker R.J.Phillips and R.D. Johnson in Simon Bowmaker(ed),
Economics Uncut: A Complete Guide to Life, Death, and Misadventure
Edward Elgar.
Gander,J. and Rieple,A. 2004. How relevant is transaction cost economics in the music industry.? Journal of Cultural Economics 28(1) 57-79 reprinted in Towse,E.(ed.) 2007. Recent Developments in Cultural Economics.Elgar
De Vany,A. and Walls, W.D. 1999. Uncertainty in the Movie Industry: Does Star Power Reduce the Terror of the Box Office? Journal of Cultural Economics 23(4) 285-318 reprinted in Towse,E.(ed.) 2007. Recent Developments in Cultural Economics.Elgar .
Harbord, D. Szymanski,S. Restricted View: The Rights and Wrongs of FA Premier League Broadcasting Report prepared for the Consumers’ Association.
Armstrong , M.Public Service Broadcasting, Inaugural Lecturer, College, London, July 2005
Davies, Gavyn, et al. (1999), The Future Funding of the BBC, Report of the Independent Review Panel for the UK Government, London: HMSO.#p#分页标题#e#
Peacock, Alan, et al. (1986), Report on the Committee on Financing the BBC,London: HMSO.
Harbord.D. & Ottaviani, M.2001 Contracts and Competition in the Pay-TV Market
http://www.ukassignment.org/ Nilssen,T. , Sorgard,L. 2000. The Television Industry. The Interplay between products, advertising and programme quality. SNF Report 3/00
7. Externality effects- including tourism and holidays
Additional reading -Coalter, F. A Wider Social Role for Sport. Who’s Keeping the Score? Routledge Sports. 2007
8. Industry sector- Recreational sex markets
see Collins book above
9. Case Study- European City of Culture Bids
10. Case Study- Olympic Games
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