TY  - GEN
AB  - Corruption in general and doping in particular are ubiquitous in both ama-
teur and professional sports and have taken the character of a systemic threat. In
creating unfair advantages, doping distorts the level playing field in sporting com-
petition. With higher stakes involved, such distortions create negative externalities
not only on the individual level (e.g. lasting health damages) but also frictions on
the aggregate level (e.g. loss of media interest) and erode the principle of sports.
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive literature overview of the individual
drivers to dope, the concomitant detrimental effects and respective countermeasures. In explaining the athletes motivation to use performance enhancing drugs,
we enrich the discussion by adapting insights from behavioral economics. These
insights help to understand such an athletes decision beyond a clear-cut rationale
but rather as a product of the interaction with the underlying environment. We
stress that in order to ensure clean sports and fair competition, more sophisticated
measurement methods have to be evolved and the respective data made publicly
available in order to facilitate more extensive studies in the future. So far, the lack
of data is alarming, especially in the area of elite sports where the stakes are high
and doping has a substantial influence.
DA  - 2014
DO  - 10.4119/unibi/2915538
KW  - Sports
KW  - Doping
KW  - Corruption
KW  - Countermeasures
KW  - Survey
LA  - eng
PY  - 2014
SN  - 2196-2723
SP  - 30-
TI  - The Economics of Corruption in Sports - The Special Case of Doping
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29155387
Y2  - 2024-11-24T12:56:05
ER  -