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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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Intangible Marketing Capital

Bronnenberg, Bart J.; Dubé, Jean-Pierre H.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

, image, etc.), along with the investments in the labor force used to manage and oversee the branding. We then discuss the …

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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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The Strategic Positioning of Store Brands in Retailer - Manufacturer Bargaining

Morton, Fiona Scott - 2000

We argue in this paper that retailers can strategically position store brands in product space to strengthen their bargaining position when negotiating supply terms with manufacturers of national brands. Using a bargaining framework we model a retailer's decision whether to carry an additional...

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Omnia Juncta in Uno : Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai's Concession Era

Alfaro, Laura; Bao, Ge; Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang; Hong, Junjie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate how firms adapt to trademark protection, an extensively used but underexamined form of IP protection, by exploring a historical precedent: China's trademark law of 1923---an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly...

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Flagship Entry in Online Marketplaces

Jin, Ginger Zhe; Lu, Zhentong; Zhou, Xiaolu; Fang, Lu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In the world of omnichannel retail, some brands open a flagship store at online marketplaces, while others avert it. Focusing on a large e-commerce platform, we empirically study how flagship entry affects consumers, the platform, and various sellers on the platform

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