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Returns to Skill in Professional Golf: A Quantile Regression Approach
Kahane, Leo H. - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 5 (2010) 3, pp. 167-180
There have been a host of empirical papers studying the returns to skill in professional golf (e.g., Alexander & Kern …, carefully considers the skewed distribution of earnings in professional golf. This paper uses quantile regression to better … handle the skewness and outlier values found in PGA earnings data. Using data from the PGA for the years 2004 to 2007 results …
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Is there a gender difference in the ability to deal with failures? Evidence from professional golf tournaments
Rosenqvist, Olof - 2016
quasi-experimental evidence from the field on this issue using data from all-female and all-male professional golf …
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Is there a gender difference in the ability to deal with failures? : evidence from professional golf tournaments
Rosenqvist, Olof - 2016
quasi-experimental evidence from the field on this issue using data from all-female and all-male professional golf …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598095
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Skills, Purses, and Performance in Professional Golf
Coate, Douglas; Goldbaum, David - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-Newark - 2004
tournament setting. Empirically, we examine trends in professional golf earnings distributions and in the relative performance of … average and below average PGA tour golfers in the U.S. The empirical work indicates that the performance of less skilled …
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A note on the international coordination of anti-doping policies
Emrich, Eike; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2012
We apply ideas put forward in the literature on the international coordination of macroeconomic and trade policies to study the merits of an international coordination of antidoping policies. Without international coordination of antidoping policies, sports associations and national anti-doping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292648
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Top-down vs. bottom-up: The long-term impact of government ideology and personal experience on values
Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2013
This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292683
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Gamblers' rationality in parimutuel soccer betting: Strategisches Spielverhalten bei Totalisatorspielen mit nicht-gleichwahrscheinlichen Spielausgängen wie Toto und Torwette
Hauser, Ursula; König, Ulrich; Krylova, Elizaveta - 2000
Wir entwickeln ein Modell für strategisches Spielverhalten bei Glücksspielen nach dem Totalisatorprinzip und wenden es auf die Fußballwettspiele Toto und Torwette an. Unter der Annahme, dass Buchmacherquoten die wahren Ausgangswahrscheinlichkeiten der betreffenden Fußballspiele reflektieren,...
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Top-down vs. bottom-up: The long-term impact of government ideology and personal experience on values
Ziebarth, Nicolas; Wagner, Gert G. - 2013
This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293150
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The impact of legalized casino gambling on crime
Nichols, Mark W.; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2013
We examine the impact of legalized casino gambling, including Indian casinos, on crime. Using county-level data between 1994 and 2009, the impact that casino legalization had on crime is examined. Our results show an increase in crime associated with casinos in some circumstances, but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293170
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Distance matters in away games: Evidence from the German football league
Oberhofer, Harald; Philippovich, Tassilo; Winner, Hannes - 2009
This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue that a team's performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue. To test this hypothesis empirically, we investigate...
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