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The Italian Job: Match Rigging, Career Concerns and Media Concentration in Serie A
Boeri, Tito; Severgnini, Battista - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703633
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Contracts as Rent Seeking Devices: Evidence from German Soccer
Feess, Eberhard; Gerfin, Michael; Muehlheusser, Gerd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
, we develop a theoretical and empirical framework in the context of European professional soccer where (incumbent) clubs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762374
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The Effect of Franchise No-Poaching Restrictions on Worker Earnings
Callaci, Brian; Gibson, Matthew; Pinto, Sergio; … - 2023
We evaluate the impact of the Washington State Attorney General's enforcement campaign against employee no-poaching clauses in franchising contracts, which unfolded from 2018 through early 2020. Implementing a staggered difference-in-differences research design using Burning Glass Technologies...
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Experimental Effects of an Absent Crowd on Performances and Refereeing Decisions during COVID-19
Bryson, Alex; Dolton, Peter; Reade, J. James; Schreyer, … - 2020
experiments currently taking place over several countries in almost identical settings: professional football matches played …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270256
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Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141184
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319468
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Fatigue and Team Performance in Soccer: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship
Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128030
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Sabotage in tournaments: Evidence from a natural experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; Sutter, Matthias - 2012
, sabotage is typically hidden, making it difficult to assess its extent and its victims. Therefore, we use data from Judo World … sabotage. In Judo, competitors can break an opponent's attack in an unsportsmanlike manner; these are seen as acts of sabotage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282329
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Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Balafoutas, Loukas; Lindner, Florian; Sutter, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
, sabotage is typically hidden, making it difficult to assess its extent and its victims. Therefore, we use data from Judo World … sabotage. In Judo, competitors can break an opponent's attack in an unsportsmanlike manner; these are seen as acts of sabotage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646301
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Heterogeneous worker ability and team-based production: Evidence from major league baseball, 1920-2009
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael - 2010
the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285515