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Information, uncertainty, and subjective entitlements in bargaining

Karagözoglu, Emin; Riedl, Arno - 2010

More often than not production processes are the joint endeavor of people having different abilities and productivities. Such production processes and the associated surplus production are often not fully transparent in the sense that the relative contributions of involved agents are blurred;...

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Sports league expansion and economic efficiency : Monopoly can enhance consumer welfare

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2003

This paper studies optimal sport league size. League expansion lowers average player quality, reducing fans utility in inframarginal locations, while fan utility in new locations rises. Welfare analyses of such expansions must compare these two effects. Using a model where fan demand depends on...

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Migrating football players, transfer fees and migration controls

Verbon, Harrie (contributor) - 2007

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How much violence does football hooliganism cause?

Fabel, Marc G.; Rainer, Helmut - 2021

This paper quantifies how much of violent crime in society can be attributed to football-related violence. We study the universe of professional football matches played out in Germany's top three football leagues over the period 2011-2015. To identify causal effects, we leverage time-series and...

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Expectations as reference points : field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment

Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 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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Does crowd support drive the home advantage in professional Soccer? : evidence from German ghost games during the COVID-19 pandemic

Fischer, Kai; Haucap, Justus - 2020

This paper examines the relation between crowd support and home advantage in professional football in making use of a unique “natural experiment” induced by restrictions due to the Corona pandemic: so-called ghost games in the top three German football divisions during the 2019/2020 season....

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Genetic diversity and performance : evidence from football data

Beine, Michel; Peracchi, Silvia; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021

The theoretical impact of genetic diversity is ambiguous since it leads to costs and benefits at the collective level. In this paper, we assess empirically the connection between genetic diversity and the performance of sport teams. Focusing on football (soccer), we built a novel dataset of...

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Auctions and corruption

Lengwiler, Yvan; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2000

In many auctions, the auctioneer is an agent of the seller. This delegation invites corruption. In this paper we … propose a model of corruption, examine how corruption affects the auction game, how the anticipation of corruption affects … that may prevent corruption, and compare them to the fee schedules employed by major auction houses. …

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Law enforcement, municipal budgets and spillover effects : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Italy

Galletta, Sergio - 2016

enforcement against corruption and organized crime in local governments. Specifically, I take advantage of an Italian law that …

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Social capital and crises with an application to Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2015

Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...

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