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Rank-order tournaments, probability of winning and investing in talent : evidence from Champions League qualifying rules

Green, Colin P.; Lozano, Fernando; Simmons, Robert - 2015

We analyse how a change in the probability of winning a tournament affects an agent's effort using the qualification rules for entry into the group and playoff stages of the UEFA Champions' League. Our results suggest that increasing the number of slots that a national league gets in the...

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Does compliance with financial fair play rules improve the football clubs' sport performance and their chances to reach UEFA competitions?

Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Agnese, Pablo - 2021

This paper evaluates the European football clubs' compliance with UEFA Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations and the effect of financial stability on sport achievements. The empirical analysis uses data of teams competing in the 1st division of four top domestic leagues (Premier League, La Liga,...

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Fatigue and team performance in soccer : evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship

Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013

We investigate the role of fatigue in soccer (football). Although this issue is important for the "productivity" of players and the optimal organization of national and international championships, empirical evidence is lacking. We use data on all the matches played by national teams in all the...

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Women and competition in elimination tournaments : evidence from professional tennis data

Lallemand, Thierry (contributor); … - 2005

This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling for many tournament and player characteristics. Further...

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The Italian job : match rigging, career concerns and media concentration in Serie A

Boeri, Tito (contributor); Severgnini, Battista (contributor) - 2008

This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a …

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Doping and cheating in contest-like situations

Kräkel, Matthias (contributor) - 2006

Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to improve their relative positions. We analyze such doping or cheating within a tournament game...

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Do tournaments with superstars encourage or discourage competition?

Babington, Michael; Goerg, Sebastian J.; Kitchens, Carl T. - 2017

To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown (2011) we empirically study contests where a single entrant has an endogenously higher probability of winning. Unlike the previous literature, we test for the presence of the superstar effect in several different contexts. Ultimately,...

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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes : cross-country and time-series evidence from the BEEPS surveys in transition economies

Mitra, Pradeep K. (contributor); … - 2008

market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power …. -- Transition ; convergence ; market structure ; competition ; enterprise finance ; enterprise restructuring …

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The importance of luck in executive promotion tournaments : theory and evidence

DeVaro, Jed; Fung, Scott - 2024

We empirically test whether executives' increases in base salary when promoted to CEO result from the wage bids of competing firms (i.e., "market-based tournaments") or from the strategic choices of the firm's board of directors to elicit optimal executive incentives (i.e., "classic...

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The effect of sport in online dating: evidence from causal machine learning

Boller, Daniel; Lechner, Michael; Okasa, Gabriel - 2021

Online dating emerged as a key platform for human mating. Previous research focused on socio-demographic characteristics to explain human mating in online dating environments, neglecting the commonly recognized relevance of sport. This research investigates the effect of sport activity on human...

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