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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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How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League

Levitt, Steven D. - 2003

The market for sports gambling is structured very differently than the typical financial market. In sports betting, bookmakers announce a price, after which adjustments are small and infrequent. As a consequence, bookmakers do not play the traditional role of market makers whose primary function...

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Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams

Ichniowski, Casey - 2014

This study investigates the professional soccer industry to ask whether the talent of an individual's co-workers helps explain differences in the rate of human capital accumulation on the job. Data tracking national soccer team performance and the professional leagues their members play for are...

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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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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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Benefits and Spillovers of Greater Competition in Europe : A Macroeconomic Assesment

Bayoumi, Tamim - 2004

Using a general-equilibrium simulation model featuring nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition in product and labor markets, this paper estimates the macroeconomic benefits and international spillovers of an increase in competition. After calibrating the model to the euro area vs. the...

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An Empirical Analysis of Funding Costs Spillovers in the EURO-zone with Application to Systemic Risk

Bonaldi, Pietro - 2015

We propose a framework for estimation of spillovers between funding costs of individual banks. The estimation proceeds in three steps: First, using data from liquidity auctions of the European Central Bank, we estimate the funding costs in a given week for each individual bank. In the second...

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Jump Starting the Euro Area Recovery : Would a Rise in Core Fiscal Spending Help the Periphery?

Blanchard, Olivier - 2015

We show that a fiscal expansion by the core economies of the euro area would have a large and positive impact on periphery GDP assuming that policy rates remain low for a prolonged period. Under our preferred model specification, an expansion of core government spending equal to one percent of...

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Bank sovereign bond holdings, sovereign shock spillovers, and moral hazard during the European crisis

Beltratti, Andrea - 2015

From 2010 to 2012, the relation between bank stock returns from European Union (EU) countries and the returns on sovereign CDS of peripheral (GIIPS) countries is negative. We use days with tail sovereign CDS returns of peripheral countries to identify the effects of shocks to the cost of...

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