tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4509173218981631666.post6562751022336004826..comments2023-11-05T07:47:39.708-05:00Comments on The Blog of Diminishing Returns: Convenience Fees, Not So Convenient to the Baseball FanSeth Gitterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05419336947867237619noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4509173218981631666.post-90513473526599278172008-08-20T11:12:00.000-04:002008-08-20T11:12:00.000-04:00dan,I was being lazy, there are substitutes in fac...dan,<BR/><BR/>I was being lazy, there are substitutes in fact I wrote a paper about it. <BR/><BR/>Other work on baseball has shown that when new teams move in close to old MLB teams the old team's attendance goes down. Nationals decrease Orioles attendance.<BR/><BR/>I show in the paper linked below. That when MLB teams raise their prices, people go to more minor league games. So the P-nats are a substitute for the nationals.<BR/>http://pages.towson.edu/trhoads/Gitter%20and%20Rhoads%20WEA08.pdf<BR/><BR/>loyalty and baseball history would have to be controlled for too. If I did all that I would probably have a paper.Seth Gitterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05419336947867237619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4509173218981631666.post-86797192888614057752008-08-19T22:39:00.000-04:002008-08-19T22:39:00.000-04:00Doesn't the fact that there are many close substit...Doesn't the fact that there are many close substitute goods to baseball tickets somewhat complicate this? Of course the closeness of the substitute has something to do with the strength of loyalty to the team (Boston and St. Louis fans, for instance, probably have less elastic demand for home-team tickets than, say, Houston or Tampa Bay fans), which is a function of the "storiedness" of the franchise?<BR/><BR/>So could you somehow control in your regression for strength of loyalty (say, by finding average sales per capita of team-branded products in the relevant metro areas)? And would it also be possible to control for the substitutability of the baseball tickets? (E.g., by using a dummy variable for another MLB team within 100 miles?)<BR/><BR/>Be interested in your reactions to my random thoughts on this...danrothschildhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09234031302021810506noreply@blogger.com