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Recent experimental evidence suggests that women in general are more discouraged than men by failures which potentially can explain why women, on average, are less likely than men to reach top positions in firms. This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence from the field on this...
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This study examines whether there are gender-specific differences in regard to physical attractiveness of professional tennis players and their performance. For this purpose, the top 100 male and female tennis players of the tennis world ranking in 2014 are examined. Athletic performance is...
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statistical significance of estimates of regression coefficients, and applications to Finance. Even if the student is not a sports …The intuition behind linear regression can be difficult for students to grasp particularly without a readily accessible … context. This paper uses basketball statistics to demonstrate the purpose of linear regression and to explain how to interpret …
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In 1997 a review of the financial health of English county cricket highlighted strategic weaknesses within the … professional game, principally an over-reliance by clubs on the annual grants provided to them by the England and Wales Cricket … First Class Cricket Counties, this paper explores how the financial position and performance of the county game has changed …
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This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed - subsequent player performance and the...
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Purpose - The purpose of this study is to single out the key variables in the sport sponsorship relationship, and more … involved in the sports club and in basketball in general. As a result, the overall accuracy of the identified sponsors may have … that the results came from only one type of sport and also from sport fans of a specific club, makes their generalization …
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