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...The annual TV revenues of English top-division clubs rose from £11mn in 1991-92 to £2.5bn last season — a hundredfold rise in real terms....
...A decade ago, loan deals rose to 20 per cent of all transfers. This year, the number has risen further to 29 per cent....
...In 1996, the shares of the four English clubs quoted on the stock market rose by an average of 200 per cent....
...Every one of the 14 Premier League clubs for which the FT has data rose up the rankings in terms of total revenues relative to almost all of the other 55 major European clubs in KPMG’s database....
...Prof Szymanski agrees....
...Even before this year’s success, the club’s revenues rose £73m last year to £104m because of promotion to the Premier League....
...Their revenues rose hugely when they opened the Emirates stadium....
...When Szymanski and Georgios Kavetsos of the London School of Economics studied European hosts of football tournaments, they found that inhabitants’ self-reported happiness rose afterwards....
...The value of the 2013–16 international rights rose more than 50 per cent on the previous three-year period to £2.2bn, and it can expect to rise significantly again....
...Moreover, their win percentage at tournaments rose from 52 per cent in 1968-92 to 62 per cent in the “international” period (counting a draw as worth half a win.)...
...When Prof Szymanski and Georgios Kavetsos of the London School of Economics studied European hosts of football tournaments, they found that inhabitants’ self-reported happiness rose after the tournament....
...And the sports economist Stefan Szymanski has shown that home advantage is worth two-thirds of a goal per game in global soccer....
...However, Stefan Szymanski, sports economist at the University of Michigan, says not one credible academic study backs this up....
...As my economics guru Stefan Szymanski explains, when the internet arrived many pundits predicted the decline of cities....
...Stefan Szymanski, a professor at Cass Business School, argues that because the money was allocated in 2007 and was therefore expected, it cannot count as a stimulus measure to fight the recession....
...Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United’s irascible manager, rose from the dugout as if to berate his winger. Then he sat down again, instead of wasting breath on a soon-to-be former employee....
...“The gain in sport is a loss on spending in cinemas,” says Stefan Szymanski, an economist at Cass business school....
...The website’s profile rose dramatically as he accurately predicted Democratic primary elections in state after state....
...Szymanski also enlightened me on soccer's failure to sweep the US....
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