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Süssmuth, Bernd - 2009

World Cup finals were the first mega-event hosted by reunified Germany. We use this landmark event in German contemporary … history to investigate how the integration of the two parts of Germany progressed after 18 years of reunification. We still …

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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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Singin' in the Rain : A Study of Social Pressure on the Soccer Field

Priks, Mikael - 2021

Although social pressure may affect the behavior of individuals, it is very hard to evaluate empirically. A soccer field is an attractive testing ground in the sense that both performance and social pressure by spectators are measurable. The drawback is that the number of spectators is an...

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Migrating Football Players, Transfer Fees and Migration Controls

Verbon, Harrie - 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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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

the final between Germany and the Netherlands right into the middle of the goalmouth …

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Term Structure and Cyclicity of Value-at-Risk : Consequences for the Solvency Capital Requirement

Bec, Frédérique; Gollier, Christian - 2021

This paper explores empirically the link between French equities returns Value-at-Risk (VaR) and the state of financial markets cycle. The econometric analysis is based on a simple vector autoregression setup. Using quarterly data from 1970Q4 to 2008Q3, it turns out that the k-year VaR of French...

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Does Political Knowledge Increase Support for Europe? A Cross Country Investigation of the Attitudes of European Citizens

Cerniglia, Floriana; Pagani, Laura - 2021

We study the impact of political knowledge on the attitudes of European citizens towards the possible distribution of responsibilities between European level institutions and national governments in three policy areas: foreign policy, defence and immigration policy. The hypothesis tested is that...

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Sorting on the Used-Car Market after the Volkswagen Emission Scandal

Strittmatter, Anthony - 2017

The disclosure of the VW emission manipulation scandal caused a quasi-experimental market shock in the observable quality of VW diesel vehicles. We consider a classical model for adverse selection and sorting to derive an empirically testable hypothesis about the impact of observable quality on...

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