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Taxation and International Migration of Superstars : Evidence from the European Football Market
Kleven, Henrik - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of football players in Europe …. We construct a panel dataset of top earnings tax rates, football player careers, and club performances in the first … number of tax and institutional changes: (a) the 1995 Bosman ruling which liberalized the European football market, (b) top …
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Bankruptcy Rates among NFL Players with Short-Lived Income Spikes
Carlson, Kyle - 2015
retirement. We test this prediction in a group of people--players in the National Football League (NFL)--whose income profile …
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Academics vs. Athletics : Career Concerns for NCAA Division I Coaches
Avery, Christopher - 2016
We analyze the promotions and firings of NCAA Division 1 college basketball and college football coaches to assess …
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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
overcome these difficulties by studying European football (soccer) clubs during 1990-2020. Detailed microdata from this setting …
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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 … data sets. Pitchers appear to throw too many fastballs; football teams pass less than they should. In both sports, there is …
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Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the National Football League
Massey, Cade - 2005
the decision making of National Football League teams during their annual player draft. This is a domain in which …
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Testing out Contractual Incompleteness : Evidence from Soccer
Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol - 2005
The theory of incomplete contracting is rival to that of complete contracting as a frame of reference to understand contractual relationships. Both approaches rest upon diametrically opposed postulates and lead to very different policy conclusions. From a theoretical viewpoint, scrutiny of the...
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Favoritism Under Social Pressure
Garicano, Luis - 2001
This paper provides empirical evidence of favoritism by agents, where that favoritism is generated by social pressure. To do so, we explore the behavior of professional soccer referees. Referees have discretion over the addition of extra time at the end of a soccer game (called injury time), to...
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Conflicts of Interest Distort Public Evaluations : Evidence from the Top 25 Ballots of NCAA Football Coaches
Kotchen, Matthew - 2011
This paper provides a study on conflicts of interest among college football coaches participating in the USA Today … percent of a coach's football budget, coaches respond with more favorable rankings of half a position, and this effect is more …
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Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption : Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan
Atkin, David - 2015
This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the clear net benefits for nearly all firms,...
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