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Competitive Balance in the Portuguese premier league of professional soccer

Marques, Antonio - EconWPA - 2002

Paper is under revision, pdf is not available. Competitive balance is what makes the sport becoming an attractive event. Contrary to other industries, a reduction in competition and a hypothetically dominant position could mean the end of the championship. If there is only one team, the...

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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 industry in the context of whether teams are actively attempting to monopolize in high- valued inputs. It is possible that a very few teams could purchase all of the best...

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European football: Back to the 1950s

Groot, Loek - EconWPA - 2005

The point of departure in this paper is the diagnosis of Hoehn and Szymanski (1999) that the interlocking system of European football creates an unbalanced system. To secure competitive balance at both the European and the national level, they recommend to reform European football into a closed...

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DE-COMMERCIALIZZARE IL CALCIO EUROPEO E SALVAGUARDARNE L'EQUILIBRIO COMPETITIVO: UNA PROPOSTA WELFARISTA

Groot, Loek - EconWPA - 2005

SOMMARIO: Introduzione. - 1. Misurare l'equilibrio competitivo del calcio europeo - 2. Il mercato per i diritti di trasmissione televisiva del calcio - 2.1 Il lato dell'offerta - 2.2 il lato della domanda - 2.3 Policy implications - 3. Conclusioni

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Revenue Sharing, Conjectures, and Scarce Talent in a Model of a Professional Sports League

Easton, Stephen; Rockerbie, Duane - EconWPA - 2003

We develop a model of a representative professional sports club that has the option of adopting one of two different forms of revenue sharing: traditional revenue sharing and central pool type revenue sharing. To adopt either form of revenue sharing, the league requires that a majority of clubs...

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Your Morals Are Your Moods

Kirchsteiger, Georg; Rigotti, Luca; Rustichini, Aldo - EconWPA - 2001

We test the effect of players' moods on their behavior in a gift-exchange game. In the first stage of the game, player 1 chooses a transfer to player 2. In the second stage, player 2 chooses an effort level. Higher effort is more costly for player 2, but it increases player 1's payoff. We say...

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Do We Need a New Point System in Professional Football Leagues?

Halicioglu, Ferda - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyses the impact of point systems on the degree of competition in professional football leagues via the annual coefficient of variation (CV) of end-of-season points. The past, existing and some alternative point systems were applied to a hypothetical football league consisting of...

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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's objective of scoring runs. Regression techniques on official statistics give a positive marginal product for a stolen base attempt, which is inconsistent with the theory of mixed...

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The Sport League's Dilemma: Competitive Balance versus Incentives to Win

Palomino, Frederic; Rigotti, Luca - EconWPA - 2001

We analyze a dynamic model of strategic interaction between a professional sport league that organizes a tournament, the teams competing to win it, and the broadcasters paying for the rights to televise it. Teams and broadcasters maximize expected profits, while the league's objective may be...

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The effects of attendance on academic performance: panel data evidence for Introductory Microeconomics

Stanca, Luca - EconWPA - 2004

This paper presents new evidence on the effects of attendance on academic performance. We exploit a large panel data … with attendance, such as ability, effort and motivation. We find that neither proxy variables nor instrumental variables … provide a viable solution to the omitted variable bias. Panel estimators indicate that attendance has a positive and …

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