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Does crowd support drive the home advantage in professional soccer? : evidence from German ghost games during the COVID-19 pandemic
Fischer, Kai; Haucap, Justus - 2020
This paper examines the relation between crowd support and home advantage in professional soccer. For that purpose, we make use of a unique "natural experiment": so-called ghost games in the three top divisions of German professional soccer during the Corona pandemic. We find that there is a...
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Does crowd support drive the home advantage in professional Soccer? : evidence from German ghost games during the COVID-19 pandemic
Fischer, Kai; Haucap, Justus - 2020
This paper examines the relation between crowd support and home advantage in professional football in making use of a … football divisions during the 2019/2020 season. We find that there is a reduced home advantage in the first division, whereas …
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The wisdom of no crowds: the reaction of betting markets to lockdown soccer games
Hegarty, Tadgh; Whelan, Karl - 2022
The support of home spectators is one of the contributing factors to the home advantage effect in sports matches. The Covid-19 pandemic led to European soccer matches being played without spectators. We show that betting markets adjusted swiftly to account for a reduced home advantage in both...
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How does online streaming affect antitrust remedies to centralized marketing? : the case of European football broadcasting rights
Budzinski, Oliver; Gänßle, Sophia; … - 2019
The collective sale of football broadcasting rights constitutes a cartel, which, in the European Union, is only allowed … authorities need to rethink the conditions and obligations they impose on centralized marketing arrangements in football. We …
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Thinning out Spectators : Did Football Matches Contribute to the Second COVID-19 Wave in Germany?
Fischer, Kai - 2021
This paper provides an ex-post analysis of football matches’ contribution to the spread of COVID-19 during Germany … find indication for a reduced effect from football matches in the presence of the ’lockdown light’ which Germany launched …’s second infection wave in summer and autumn 2020. We find slightly positive effects from occurring professional football …
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How Does Online Streaming Affect Antitrust Remedies to Centralized Marketing? The Case of European Football Broadcasting Rights
Budzinski, Oliver - 2019
The collective sale of football broadcasting rights constitutes a cartel, which, in the European Union, is only allowed … authorities need to rethink the conditions and obligations they impose on centralized marketing arrangements in football. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866938
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Home Advantage in Professional Soccer and Betting Market Efficiency : The Role of Spectator Crowds
Fischer, Kai; Haucap, Justus - 2022
Fan support has often been considered to be a main driver of the home advantage in sports. Using the natural experiment of ghost games during the COVID-19 pandemic in German professional soccer and a dataset of 6,120 matches ranging over the seasons 2011/2012 to 2020/2021, we test this claim....
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Forecasting soccer matches with betting odds : a tale of two markets
Hegarty, Tadgh; Whelan, Karl - 2023
We compare the properties of betting market odds set in two distinct markets for a large sample of European soccer matches. We confirm inefficiencies in the traditional market for bets on a home win, an away win or a draw as found in previous studies such as Angelini and De Angelis (2019), in...
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The Willingness to Pay for a German Win of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil
Bakkenbüll, Linn‐Brit - 2017
Germany (n=549), the WTP increased with the success of the German national football team and respondents were willing to pay …We examine the value of sporting success of the 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil by using a method that allows … €23.00 on average if Germany became the World Champion 2014. An extrapolation of the WTP of the respondents finds that the …
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Performing without pressure? : the effect of ghost games on effort- and skill-based tasks in the football Bundesliga
Bühren, Christoph; Jung, Dominic - 2022
We analyze the natural experiment of ghost games in the 2019/2020 season of the German football Bundesliga and confirm …
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