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    Switching costs and sports

    August 20th, 2008

    Author: Ryan Manuel

    As a further to last week’s article on sport and markets, this article in today’s Australian shows the dilemma facing modern sports administrators, with one of our top javelin prospects moving to the NRL instead

    When there is a better funded, non-Olympic sport people will generally switch. There aren’t too many 17 year old boys who would choose differently.

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    1. [...] generated further thought-provoking views, from Dominic Meagher, as well as a follow-up on ‘switching costs‘. Relatedly, in the Sydney Morning Herald last Saturday, Hamish McDonald asked: ‘Billion [...]

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