Klaassen, Franc J.G.M.; Magnus, Jan R. - In: Journal of Econometrics 148 (2009) 1, pp. 72-85
We consider the question whether top tennis players in a top tournament (Wimbledon) employ an optimal (efficient) service strategy. While we show that top players do not, in general, follow an optimal strategy, our principal result is that the estimated inefficiencies are not large: the...