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Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying-seconds" of international football matches
Ours, Jan C van; Van Tuijl, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six …
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Taxation and International Migration of Superstars: Evidence from the European Football Market
Kleven, Henrik; Landais, Camille; Saez, Emmanuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of top football players in … Europe. We construct a panel data set of top earnings tax rates, football player careers, and club performances in the first … tax and institutional changes: (a) the 1995 Bosman ruling which liberalized the European football market, (b) top tax rate …
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Winning by Losing: Incentive Incompatibility in Multiple Qualifiers
Dagaev, Dmitry; Sonin, Konstantin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
In sport tournaments, the rules are presumably structured in a way that any team cannot be better off (e.g., to advance to the next round of competition) by losing instead of winning a game. Starting with a real-world example, we demonstrate that the existing national rules of awarding places...
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