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The decline of professional football in Italy
Boeri, Tito; Severgnini, Battista - 2012
There are three main critical areas in the Italian football industry. First, we find that the revenues of teams playing …
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Legal restrictions on buyout fees : theory and evidence from German soccer
Feess, Eberhard (contributor); Frick, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Which former professional football players become successful professional head coaches?
Balliauw, Matteo; Verheuge, Marco; Baert, Stijn - 2022
One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach …
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Contracts as rent seeking devices : evidence from German soccer
Feess, Eberhard (contributor); Gerfin, Michael (contributor) - 2008
Recent theoretical research has identified many ways how contracts can be used as rent seeking devices vis-à-vis third parties, but there is no empirical evidence on this issue so far. To test some basic qualitative properties of this literature, we develop a theoretical and empirical framework...
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Gender differences in reaction to psychological pressure : evidence from tennis players
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2015
Using data on about 35,000 professional tennis matches, we test whether men and women react differently to psychological pressure arising from the outcomes of sequential stages in a competition. We show that, with respect to males, females losing the first set are much more likely to play poorly...
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Transfer fee regulations in European football
Feess, Eberhard; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2002
incentives in European football. The different regimes, being used until 1995 ("Pre-Bosman" or P), currently in use ("Bosman" or …
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Do former college athletes earn more at work? : A nonparametric assessment
Henderson, Daniel J. (contributor);  … - 2005
significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic participation is a significant determinant of wages. Additionally, by …. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage distribution of former college athletes is … using newly developed techniques in nonparametric regression, it shows that on average former college athletes earn a wage …
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Organizational barriers to technology adoption : evidence from soccer-ball producers in Pakistan
Atkin, David J.; Chaudhry, Shahid Amjad; Chaudry, Shamyla; … - 2015
This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the technology to a random subset of producers. Despite the arguably unambiguous net benefits of the...
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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 judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the determinants of match rigging and use this information in...
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Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying seconds" of international football matches
Ours, Jan C. van; Tuijl, Martin A. van - 2010
important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six … national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … teams of Brazil and Italy only conceded one goal in the last minute. As to winning penalty shootouts, Germany outperforms …
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