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The role of sports physicians in doping: a note on incentives
How to ban the fraudulent use of performance-enhancing drugs is an issue in all professional – and increasingly in amateur – sports. The main effort in enforcing a “clean sport” has concentrated on proving an abuse of performance-enhancing drugs and on imposing sanctions on teams and athletes....
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| Veröffentlicht in: | MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 17-2013) |
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| Autoren: | , |
| Format: | Artikel |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
2013
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| Zusammenfassung: | How to ban the fraudulent use of performance-enhancing drugs is
an issue in all professional – and increasingly in amateur – sports. The
main effort in enforcing a “clean sport” has concentrated on proving
an abuse of performance-enhancing drugs and on imposing sanctions
on teams and athletes.
An investigation started by Freiburg university hospital against two of
its employees who had been working as physicians for a professional cycling
team has drawn attention to another group of actors: physicians.
It reveals a multi-layered contractual relations between sports teams,
physicians, hospitals, and sports associations that provided string incentives
for the two doctors to support the use performance-enhancing
drugs. This paper argues that these misled incentives are not singular
but a structural part of modern sports caused by cross effects between
the labor market for sports medicine specialists (especially if they are
researchers) and for professional athletes. |
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| ISSN: | 1867-3678 |
| DOI: | 10.17192/es2024.0180 |