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Seemingly Irrelevant Events Affect Economic Perceptions and Expectations : The FIFA World Cup 2006 as a Natural Experiment
Dohmen, Thomas J.; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2021
Prominent economic theories have emphasized the role of commonly held perceptions and expectations for determining macroeconomic outcomes. A key empirical question is how such collectively held beliefs are formed. We use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment. We provide direct evidence...
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Country-Specific Goal-Scoring in the 'Dying Seconds' of International Football Matches
van Ours, Jan C. - 2010
national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national … teams to score in the last minute - including stoppage time. However, for Germans this comes at a cost. Germany is more …
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Labor Market Discrimination and Capital Investment : The Effects of Fan Discrimination on Stadium Investment
Bodvarsson, Orn B. - 2009
We investigate the possibility that labor market discrimination affects economic outcomes in the complementary capital market. Previous research contains ample theoretical justification, and empirical evidence, that discrimination affects wages and employment in labor markets. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154491
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Effects of a Red Card on Goal-Scoring in World Cup Football Matches
Cerveny, Jakub - 2016
We examine the effect of the sending-off of a player on the goal-scoring rates in FIFA World Cup matches in tournaments from 1998 to 2014. We use a hazard rate framework in which the effect of a red card is modeled as a shift in the goal-scoring rate. A red card may harm the team that receives a...
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Family Violence and Football : The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior
Card, David - 2010
We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the 'gain-loss' utility of game outcomes around a rationally expected reference point. Our empirical...
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An Economic Model of the Evolution of the Gender Performance Ratio in Individual Sports
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2010
This paper shows that the gender world record ratio in four disciplines, i.e. marathon, triple jump, pole vault and 800 meters, follows an S-shape over time. It is argued that this pattern is initiated by a sudden drop in the social barrier for women to participate in these disciplines. This...
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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 players and the optimal organization of national and international championships, empirical evidence is lacking. We use data on all the matches played by national teams in all the...
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Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Dolan, Paul - 2019
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi-experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show...
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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127722
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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …
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