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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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Family Violence and Football : The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior
Card, David - 2009
using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463152
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470344
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Professionals Do Not Play Minimax : Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League
Kovash, Kenneth - 2009
data sets. Pitchers appear to throw too many fastballs; football teams pass less than they should. In both sports, there is … 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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467415
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461029
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Who Wins the Olympic Games : Economic Development and Medal Totals
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2000
This paper examines determinants of Olympic success at the country level. Does the U.S. win its fair share of Olympic medals? Why does China win 6% of the medals even though it has 1/5 of the world's population? We consider the role of population and economic development in determining medal...
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The Promise of Beijing : Evaluating the Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games on Air Quality
Chen, Yuyu - 2011
To prepare for the 2008 Olympic Games, China adopted a number of radical measures to improve air quality. Using officially reported air pollution index (API) from 2000 to 2009, we show that these measures improved the API of Beijing during and after the Games, but 60% of the effect faded away by...
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Building Nations Through Shared Experiences : Evidence from African Football
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio - 2018
national football teams' victories in sub- Saharan Africa. Combining individual survey data with information on official …
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