We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity … equal, managers who themselves played at a higher level raise the productivity of less-skilled teams by more than that of … subordinates the skills needed to succeed, since less skilled players have more to learn. We also find that managers with more …

After three years in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), collegiate football players face a trade …-off between spending more time in the NCAA and pursuing a career in the National Football League (NFL) by declaring for the draft …

There are three main critical areas in the Italian football industry. First, we find that the revenues of teams playing …

That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options … bad luck and may find it difficult to identify and attract talented managers from other clubs. Indeed, most of the …

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

occurrence of an arms race among top European football teams …