leaders and organisational performance. Using game-by-game linked employer-employee data for professional football in four … reweight teams' performance prior to the departure of a Coach so that trends in team performance prior to the departure match … spells which ended with a Coach remaining in post. Consistent with theory, Head Coach quits have little or no impact on team …

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 … on all the matches played by national teams in all the tournaments of the FIFA Soccer World Cup (from 1930 to 2010) and …

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 … a 6% higher starting salary in the NFL, and a 15% higher first-year signing bonus, for each year with the college team …

There are three main critical areas in the Italian football industry. First, we find that the revenues of teams playing … industry. Second, we document that there has been an exponential growth of players' salaries, which has been historically …

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

That football Head Coaches will be dismissed for poor performance and will quit when they have better outside options … literature indicates little improvement in team performance when one coach replaces another. Equally, Head Coaches may have few …

We investigate whether the home advantage in soccer differs by various dimensions of distance between the (regions of … when the home team plays at a higher altitude, they benefit substantially more from their home advantage. Every 100 meters … of altitude difference is associated with an increase in expected probability to win the match, as the home team, by 1 …

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

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