. Focusing on football (soccer), we built a novel dataset of national teams of European countries that have participated in the … European and the World Championships since 1970. Determining the genetic diversity of national teams is based on the distance …

; competition …

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 … violent crimes on days with and without professional football matches while controlling for date heterogeneity, weather, and …

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 …

of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after …This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity …

. We use this historical pattern as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of contemporary private competition … after controlling for current Catholic shares. -- Private school competition ; student achievement ; Catholic schools …

stress that competition and regulatory authorities should take seriously the potential trade-off between market power effects …

The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and …