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The wisdom of no crowds: the reaction of betting markets to lockdown soccer games
Hegarty, Tadgh; Whelan, Karl - 2022
Covid-19 pandemic led to European soccer matches being played without spectators. We show that betting markets adjusted … accurate over a large sample of soccer matches subsequently played without spectators even though the earliest games appeared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191361
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013556864
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Betting market efficiency in the presence of unfamiliar shocks : the case of ghost games during the COVID-19 pandemic
Fischer, Kai; Haucap, Justus - 2020
expectations adapt to an exogenous shock: the introduction of soccer ghost games during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that betting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271737
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Betting market efficiency in the presence of unfamiliar shocks : the case of ghost games during the COVID-19 pandemic
Fischer, Kai; Haucap, Justus - 2020
expectations adapt to an exogenous shock: the introduction of soccer ghost games during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that betting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261187
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Are sports betting markets semistrong efficient? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic
Meier, Pascal Flurin; Flepp, Raphael; Franck, Egon - 2021
This paper examines whether sports betting markets are semistrong-form efficient—i.e., whether new information is rapidly and completely incorporated into betting prices. We use the news of ghost matches in the top European football leagues due to the COVID-19 pandemic as the arrival of public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012693929
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Forecasting soccer matcheswith 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540470
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Comparing two methods for testing the efficiency of sports betting markets
Hegarty, Tadgh; Whelan, Karl - 2024
illustrate this finding using large datasets of bets and outcomes for tennis and soccer and also with realistic simulations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540503
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Comparing two methods for testing the efficiency of sports betting markets
Hegarty, Tadgh; Whelan, Karl - 2024
illustrate this finding using large datasets of bets and outcomes for tennis and soccer and also with realistic simulations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476710
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241875
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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 unique “natural experiment” induced by restrictions due to the Corona pandemic: so-called ghost games in the top three German football divisions during the 2019/2020 season....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287309