Broadcasting La Liga

Bergantiños, Gustavo and Moreno-Ternero, Juan D. (2020): Broadcasting La Liga.

Abstract

We study the sharing of revenues raised from the collective sale of broadcasting rights for La Liga, which is strongly regulated by the Spanish government since 2015. Regulation imposes, somewhat surprisingly, that lower bounds and performance measures outweigh the capability (of each club) to generate resources from selling broadcasting rights. Also, more disturbingly, the latter dimension cannot be rationalized by a sharing rule with solid normative grounds.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: La Liga, broadcasting rights, sport leagues, resource allocation
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory > C71 - Cooperative Games

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