nep-spo New Economics Papers
on Sports and Economics
Issue of 2025–12–08
two papers chosen by
Humberto Barreto, DePauw University


  1. Comment les spectateurs des événements sportifs réagissent-ils face aux sponsors « polluants » ? By Michel Desbordes; Björn Walliser; Maël Besson
  2. Different Forms of Imbalance in Strongly Playable Discrete Games II: Multi-Player RPS Games By Itai Maimon

  1. By: Michel Desbordes (CIAMS - Complexité, Innovation, Activités Motrices et Sportives - UO - Université d'Orléans - Université Paris-Saclay); Björn Walliser (CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine); Maël Besson (Agence SPORT 1.5)
    Abstract: La présence de Coca-Cola pour les Jeux olympiques et paralympiques de Paris 2024 et Dacia à l'Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) a cristallisé les critiques. Ce qui est en jeu pour les organisateurs d'évènements sportifs : trouver un équilibre entre critères financiers, avec la présence de ces marques commerciales, et environnementaux.
    Keywords: sport, sponsoring, environnement, marketing
    Date: 2025–11–19
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05373340
  2. By: Itai Maimon
    Abstract: Classic Rock-Paper-Scissors, RPS, has seen many variants and generalizations in the past several years. In the previous paper, we defined playability and balance for games. We used these definitions to show that different forms of imbalance agree on the most balanced and least balanced form of playable two-player n-object RPS games, referred to as (2, n)-RPS. We reintroduce these definitions here and show that, given a conjecture, the generalization of this game for m
    Date: 2025–11
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2511.13736

This nep-spo issue is ©2025 by Humberto Barreto. It is provided as is without any express or implied warranty. It may be freely redistributed in whole or in part for any purpose. If distributed in part, please include this notice.
General information on the NEP project can be found at https://nep.repec.org. For comments please write to the director of NEP, Marco Novarese at <director@nep.repec.org>. Put “NEP” in the subject, otherwise your mail may be rejected.
NEP’s infrastructure is sponsored by the School of Economics and Finance of Massey University in New Zealand.