important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six … Championship and World Cup and the matches at the final tournaments of these two events, the Copa America and the Confederations … the other five countries. -- Football ; goal-scoring ; national team matches ; full ‘A’ international matches …

rates for 50 European countries, along 56 years, with measures of national teams' performance in 27 international football …

macroeconomic outcomes. A key empirical question is how such collectively held beliefs are formed. We use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as …

football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a … professional football season. Controlling for the pre-game point spread and the size of the local viewing audience, we find that …

for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we …

We examine the effect of the sending-off of a player on the goal-scoring rates in FIFA World Cup matches in tournaments …

on all the matches played by national teams in all the tournaments of the FIFA Soccer World Cup (from 1930 to 2010) and …We investigate the role of fatigue in soccer (football). Although this issue is important for the "productivity" of … the UEFA European Football Championship (from 1960 to 2012). We relate team performance (in terms of points gained and …