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Incentives to lose revisited : the NHL and its tournament incentives
Fornwagner, Helena - 2017
This paper analyzes data from a tournament, namely the National Hockey League regular scheduled season of games, which provides incentives to increase effort in order to reach the playoffs and incentives to decrease effort once a team has been eliminated from playoff considerations because of...
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One for sure or three maybe : empirical evidence for overtime play from Swiss ice hockey
Franck, Egon; Theiler, Philipp - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778953
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Wage dispersion and team performance : a theoretical model and evidence from baseball
Breunig, Robert; Garrett-Rumba, Bronwyn; Jardin, Mathieu; … - 2012
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New Approaches to Shirking in Major League Baseball
Paulsen, Richard - 2018
The impact of contract length on player performance has received attention in the sports economics literature. Players are said to shirk following the signing of a guaranteed contract if performance falls below some level of expected performance. While much of the literature uses OLS to identify...
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Employees' performance variation over fixed-term contracts : evidence from the National Hockey League
Furmaco, L.; Longley, Neil; Palermo, Alberto; Rossi, … - 2021
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Has Collusion Returned to Baseball? Analyzing Whether a Concerted Increase in Free Agent Player Supply Would Violate Baseball's "Collusion Clause"
Edelman, Marc - 2009
This article argues that a concerted agreement among baseball clubs to increase the supply of free agent players … violates baseball's collusion clause, and therefore, MLB clubs are at risk of losing another collusion grievance. Part I of … this article explains the evolution of baseball's collusion clause and discusses three past collusion grievances filed by …
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Tests of racial discrimination in a simple financial market : managers in Major League Baseball
Paul, Rodney J.; Weinbach, Andrew P.; Mattingly, Justin - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-10
This study tests for racial discrimination against minority managers in Major League Baseball using financial …
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Do fans care about compliance to doping regulations in sports? : The impact of PED suspension in Baseball
Cisyk, Jeffrey; Coutry, Pascal - 2014
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Are voluntary agreements better? : evidence from baseball arbitration
Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014
- subsequent player performance and the durability of club-player relationship. Major League Baseball provides a compelling setting …
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Revenue sharing and collusive behavior in the Major League Baseball posting system
Rockerbie, Duane - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 3/71, pp. 1-12
League Baseball and the Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball League that allowed for the transfer of baseball players from … European football. The unique features of the posting system were a compromise between Major League Baseball clubs and Nippon … Professional Baseball clubs with the understanding that the former was a collusive group of club owners. Revenue sharing is a …
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