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Migrating Football Players, Transfer Fees and Migration Controls

Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2021

Since the famous Bosman ruling by the European Court of Justice in 1995 transfer fees for football players after moving … unrestricted market free migration from football players will be Pareto efficient under special circumstances only. This paper … shows that transfer fees can correct inefficient migration flows from small to large football leagues. Home-grown rules that …

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Increasing Workplace Diversity : Evidence From a Recruiting Experiment at a Fortune 500 Company

Flory, Jeffrey - 2018

The persistent lack of workplace diversity in management and leadership may lead to organizational vulnerabilities. White males occupy most high-profile positions in the largest U.S. corporations whereas African Americans, Hispanics, and women are clearly underrepresented in leadership roles....

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Diversity and Conflict

Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2018

This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...

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Team Production, Gender Diversity, and Male Courtship Behavior

von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2015

This theoretical paper explores the impact of gender diversity on team production. The key assumption is that men derive utility from signaling high ability to female colleagues. The analysis shows that some gender diversity maximizes expected team production if (i) men and women have similar...

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Diversity, Social Goods Provision, and Performance in the Firm

Ellison, Sara Fisher - 2014

The last decade has seen a growing interest among economists on the effect of diversity on the provision of social goods and the stock of social capital. Indeed, in the workplace, cooperation, trust, and other social goods may be important elements of the smooth functioning of an office, but...

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Induced Civic Pride and Integration

Süssmuth, Bernd - 2009

This paper investigates whether a nation's contingent value of hosting a mega-event depends on past experience with implied public goods benefits for its residents. Applying data from an ex-ante and ex-post query based on contingent valuation methods, we use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural...

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Expectations as Reference Points : Field Evidence from Experienced Subjects in a Competitive, High-Stakes Environment

Bartling, Björn - 2012

We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...

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Market Segmentation in Two-Sided Markets : TV Rights for Premier League

Kind, Hans Jarle - 2013

This paper analyzes market segmentation in a two-sided market that consists of media consumers and advertisers. The analysis is motivated by a European Court of Justice Decision in October 2011, which allowed viewers to take advantage of international price differences and buy access to Premier...

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The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance : The Role of Team Heterogeneity

Hentschel, Sandra - 2012

on coach dismissals in the German football league where the selection of players is indeed a key task of the coach …

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The Penalty-Duel and Institutional Design : Is There a Neeskens-Effect?

Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - 2021

We document an increase in the scoring probability from penalties in soccer, which separates the time period before 1974 significantly from that after 1976: the scoring probability increased by 11%. We explain this finding by arguing that the institution of penalty-shooting before 1974 is best...

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