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Hill, Elaine L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The benefits and costs of resource extraction are currently being hotly debated in the case of unconventional natural gas development (commonly known as "fracking"). Colorado provides a unique research environment to study the health impacts of conventional and unconventional forms of oil and...

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Winning Isn't Everything : Corruption in Sumo Wrestling

Duggan, Mark - 2000

Although the theoretical literature on corruption is well developed, empirical work in this area has lagged because it has proven difficult to isolate corrupt behavior in the data. In this paper, we look for evidence of corruption in an unlikely place: the highest echelons of Japanese sumo...

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Labor Markets in Professional Sports

Rosen, Sherwin - 2000

Many interesting elements of supply and demand are starkly observable in professional athletics. Understanding institutional arrangements, competitive balance and labor-management relations requires a basic understanding of sports labor markets and the struggle for control of those markets...

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The Dynamics of Inattention in the (Baseball) Field

Archsmith, James E.; Heyes, Anthony; Neidell, Matthew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

performance later. In this paper, we exploit high-frequency data on decision-making by Major League Baseball umpires to examine …

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Does Employing Skilled Immigrants Enhance Competitive Performance? Evidence from European Football Clubs

Glennon, Britta; Morales, Francisco; Carnahan, Seth; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We investigate the effect of hiring skilled immigrant employees on the performance of organizations. This relationship has been difficult to establish in prior work due to theoretical ambiguity, limited data, and inherent endogeneity. We overcome these difficulties by studying European football...

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Who Profits From Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports

Garthwaite, Craig - 2020

Intercollegiate amateur athletics in the US largely bars student-athletes from sharing in any of the profits generated by their participation, which creates substantial economic rents for universities. These rents are primarily generated by men's football and men's basketball programs. We...

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Professionals Do Not Play Minimax : Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League

Kovash, Kenneth - 2009

pitch type in Major League Baseball and whether to run or pass in the National Football League. We observe more than three … million pitches in baseball and 125,000 play choices for football. We find systematic deviations from minimax play in both … errors could be worth as many as two additional victories a year to a Major League Baseball franchise, and more than a half …

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Equilibrium Price Dynamics in Perishable Goods Markets : The Case of Secondary Markets for Major League Baseball Tickets

Sweeting, Andrew - 2008

This paper analyzes the dynamics of prices in two online secondary markets for Major League Baseball tickets …

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Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees

Price, Joseph - 2007

The NBA provides an intriguing place to test for taste-based discrimination: referees and players are involved in repeated interactions in a high-pressure setting with referees making the type of split-second decisions that might allow implicit racial biases to manifest themselves. Moreover, the...

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Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the National Football League

Massey, Cade - 2005

A question of increasing interest to researchers in a variety of fields is whether the incentives and experience present in many "real world" settings mitigate judgment and decision-making biases. To investigate this question, we analyze the decision making of National Football League teams...

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