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Free-Agency and the Competitiveness of Major-League Baseball

II, Craig A. Depken - EconWPA - 1996

I investigate whether the removal of the reserve clause in professional baseball has affected the competitive nature of … the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index for homeruns and strikeouts in professional baseball from 1920 to 1993, and relate them to … structural changes in baseball. I isolate the structural effect of free-agency and find no evidence that free agency has altered …

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Reputation Effects in Gold Glove Award Voting

Zillante, Arthur - EconWPA - 2005

data from Major League Baseball, I attempt to quantify the effect that reputation plays in voting for the Gold Glove award …

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The Theory of Theft: An Inspection Game Model of the Stolen Base Play in Baseball

Turocy, Theodore L. - EconWPA - 2004

interaction in the stolen base play in baseball. A parsimonious simultaneous-move game model offers predictions about how the … organizes observations from play-by-play data from Major League Baseball, where highly-motivated, experienced professionals …

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Is Batting Last an Advantage?

Turocy, Theodore L. - EconWPA - 2003

This paper applies the theory of zero-sum stochastic games to assess the validity of baseball's ancient wisdom that …

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Offensive Performance, Omitted Variables, and the Value of Speed in Baseball

Turocy, Theodore L. - EconWPA - 2003

This note considers the problem of estimating the marginal products of offensive events towards a baseball team …

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Low Information Games - Experimental Evidence on Learning in Ultimatum Bargaining

Slembeck, Tilman - EconWPA - 1999

This paper reports experimental evidence on behaviour in an Ultimatum Game where responders have low structural information and feedback so that they have to learn the nature of the game during repeated play. The results lend support to the view that certain learning conditions are less...

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Universally Stable Adjustment Processes - A Unifying Approach

Herings, P.J.J. - EconWPA - 2001

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Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits and Local Political Control in Sixteenth Century Castile

Drelichman, Mauricio - EconWPA - 2005

The widespread ennoblement of the Spanish bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century has been traditionally considered one of the main causes of Iberian decline. I document and quantify the surge in ennoblement through a new time series of nobility cases preserved in the Archive of the Royal Chancery...

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An interview with Thomas C. Schelling: Interpretation of game theory and the checkerboard model

Aydinonat, N. Emrah - EconWPA - 2005

This note is mainly based on a short interview with Thomas C. Schelling (TCS), who shared the Nobel Prize with Robert J. Aumann in 2005. The interview took place on 06.03.2001 at University of Maryland, College Park, USA. It consists of two parts. The first part is about his interpretation of...

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Endogenous Games and Mechanisms: Side Payments Among Players

Jackson, Matthew O.; Wilkie, Simon - EconWPA - 2002

We characterize the outcomes of games when players may make binding offers of strategy contingent side payments before the game is played. This does not always lead to efficient outcomes, despite complete information and costless contracting. The characterizations are illustrated in a series of...

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