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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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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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Human Capital Reallocation Across Firms : Evidence from Idiosyncratic Shocks
Gilje, Erik P.; Taillard, Jerôme P.; Zeng, Linghang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study human capital reallocation following firm-specific idiosyncratic shocks. Theory offers diverging predictions as to whether human capital gets reallocated to its most productive use following these shocks. To empirically test these predictions, we focus on relegation battles in the...
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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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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
crowd, by documenting how the size and composition of the crowd affect referee favoritism …
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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
Recent theoretical and empirical work characterizes attention as a limited resource that decision-makers strategically allocate. There has been less research on the dynamic interdependence of attention: how paying attention now may affect performance later. In this paper, we exploit...
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Who Profits From Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports
Garthwaite, Craig - 2020
men's football and men's basketball programs. We characterize these economic rents using comprehensive revenue and …
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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. Controlling for ticket quality, prices tend to decline significantly as a game approaches. The paper describes and tests alternative theoretical explanations for why this happens in...
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