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Süssmuth, Bernd; Heyne, Malte; Maennig, Wolfgang - 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; 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 … football divisions during the 2019/2020 season. We find that there is a reduced home advantage in the first division, whereas …

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Sports clubs and populism : quasi-experimental evidence from German cities

Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023

Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are booming in cities with successful soccer teams which pass the...

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The IOC's midas touch : Summer Olympics and city growth

Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - 2013

Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a...

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Genetic diversity and performance : evidence from football data

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

. Focusing on football (soccer), we built a novel dataset of national teams of European countries that have participated in the …

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European market integration for gas? : volume flexibility and political risk

Asche, Frank; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - 2000

, Dutch and Russian gas export prices to Germany in 1990-1998 are examined. Cointegration tests show that the different border … prices for gas to Germany move proportionally over time, indicating an integrated gas market (the Law of One Price holds). We …

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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on persistence in the European stock markets

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Arrese … - 2021

This paper analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the degree of persistence of European stock markets. Specifically, it uses fractional integration methods to estimate persistence at the daily, weekly and monthly frequencies in the case of ten major European stock market indices; the...

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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

universe of professional football matches played out in Germany's top three football leagues over the period 2011-2015. To …This paper quantifies how much of violent crime in society can be attributed to football-related violence. We study the … violent crimes on days with and without professional football matches while controlling for date heterogeneity, weather, and …

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