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Collegiate and professional careers of high school athletes
Mirabile, McDonald; Witte, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We examine approximately 1,000 high school quarterbacks that are recruited into collegiate athletics to determine what factors impact the player’s decision to transfer to another school, change their position from quarterback, complete their eligibility (and presumably graduate), to be drafted...
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Health Infrastructure, Health Outcome and Economic Wellbeing: A District Level Study in India
Hati, Koushik Kumar; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Healthy population is considered to be the engine of economic growth. A healthy person can work with efficiency to earn wealth. Collective wealth of all those persons gives rise to the wealth of the nation. Against this backdrop, the present paper analyses health infrastructure and health...
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The taxation of sport betting: a professional's view
Albers, Norman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
models under debate and a first empirical outlook of their consequences on the gambling market, especially on the sport …The German sport betting market has traditionally been subjected to a strict regulation. The legal framework valid … betting sector in Germany. Three models of sport betting taxation and their empirical outcomes are presented in detail. …
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Preference for Skew in Lotteries: Evidence from the Laboratory
Santos-Pinto, Luís; Astebro, Thomas; Mata, José - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Using a laboratory experiment we investigate how skew in uences choices under risk. We find that subjects make significantly riskier choices when the distribution of payoffs is positively skewed, these choices being driven in part by the shape of the utility function but also by subjective...
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Unethical dilemmas in derivatives practice
Alqatawni, Tahsen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
of gambling, and spread to extremely large volume. Although, the unethical practices from a financial institution …
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Gambling Preference and the New Year Effect of Assets with Lottery Features
Doran, James; Jiang, Danling; Peterson, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines whether investors exhibit a New Year's gambling preference and whether such preference impacts …
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The optimal layout of football players: A case study for AC Milan
Papahristodoulou, Christos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper attempts to find the optimal formation of three midfielders and three forward football players on ground, using the classic Quadratic Assignment Problem or Facility Layout problem. Players are treated as “machines”, their positions as locations, and the flow of materials between...
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Do soccer players play the mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium?
Azar, Ofer H.; Bar-Eli, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium (MSNE) is a commonly-used solution concept in game-theoretic models in various fields in economics, management, and other disciplines, but the experimental results whether the MSNE predicts well actual play in games is mixed. Consequently, evidence for...
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Franchise Relocations, Expansions, and Mergers in Professional Sports Leagues
Daniel, Rascher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
with a few teams in major cities competing head-to-head with the existing dominant league. Inevitably, the sport ends up … with one major league providing top level play, begging the question of whether sports leagues are natural monopolies. This …
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Hidden power law patterns in the top European football leagues
Sergio, Da Silva; Raul, Matsushita; Eliza, Silveira - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Because sports are stylized combat, sports may follow power laws similar to those found for wars, individual clashes …
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