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What happens when employers are free to discriminate? : evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League

Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - 2014

have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League …

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Substitution between managers and subordinates : evidence from British football

Bridgewater, Sue; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Goodall, Amanda H. - 2009

We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity …

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Mind, body, bubble! : psychological and biophysical dimensions of behavior in experimental asset markets

Butler, David J.; Cheung, Stephen L. - 2018

Asset market bubbles and crashes are a major source of economic instability and inefficiency. Sometimes ascribed to animal spirits or irrational exuberance, their source remains imperfectly understood. Experimental methods can isolate systematic deviations from an asset's fundamental value in a...

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Skewness expectations and portfolio choice

Drerup, Tilman H.; Wibral, Matthias; Zimpelmann, Christian - 2022

Many models of investor behavior predict that investors prefer assets that they believe to have positively skewed return distributions. We provide a direct test of this prediction in a representative sample of the Dutch population. Using individual-level data on return expectations for a broad...

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Does the home advantage depend on crowd support? : evidence from same-stadium derbies

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014

We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from …

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Productivity effects of air pollution : evidence from professional soccer

Lichter, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Sommer, Eric - 2015

on the universe of professional soccer players in Germany over the period 1999-2011. Combining this data with hourly …

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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 … on all the matches played by national teams in all the tournaments of the FIFA Soccer World Cup (from 1930 to 2010) and … the UEFA European Football Championship (from 1960 to 2012). We relate team performance (in terms of points gained and …

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