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Home advantage in Turkish professional soccer
Seckin, Aylin; Pollard, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Home advantage is known to play an important role in the outcome of professional soccer games, and to vary considerably worldwide. In the Turkish Super League over the last 12 years, 61.5% of the total points gained have been won by the home team, a figure similar to the worldwide average and to...
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Entropy, competitiveness and UEFA football ranking
Ferreira, Paulo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper intends to explore the utilization of entropy through football, generalizing the interpretation of entropy …. We consider it as a measure of competitiveness of football leagues and relate it to the UEFA ranking, which ranks yearly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210471
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International hostility and aggressiveness on the soccer pitch Evidence from European Championships and World Cups for the period 2000-2012
Caruso, Raul; Di Domizio, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Some Researchers consider soccer matches as the stylization of a war in other battlefields. Such approach was largely used to interpret the violent phenomena related to the soccer environment, while less attention has been paid to the «potential» role of political and economic interactions...
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Emergence of a professional sports league and human capital formation for sports: The Japanese Professional Football League.
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The Japanese Professional Football League (J-league) was established in 1993. Based on individual level data, this … study investigated how emergence of the league affected Japanese people playing football using the differences … more likely to play football after emergence of the J-League than before it emerged. (2) There was a positive effect of the …
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Effect of Linguistic Heterogeneity on Technology Transfer: An Economic Study of FIFA Football Rankings.
yamamura, eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper used the Fédération International de Football Association (FIFA) world ranking points data to examine how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836446
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THE Economics of Match-Fixing
Caruso, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The phenomenon of match-fixing does constitute a constant element of sport contests. This paper presents a simple formal model in order to explain it. The intuition behind is that an asymmetry in the evaluation of the stake is the key factor leading to match-fixing. In sum, this paper considers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616782
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The impact of foreign players on international football performance
Karaca, Orhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
I investigate the impact of foreign players on international football performance of club teams and national teams in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617048
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Valuation model for football clubs based on the key factors of their business
Barajas, Angel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
study of the essential factors for value creation in football and the las one shows the valuation methos based on the … professional football clubs to create value for shareholders. …
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Do soccer players play the mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium?
Azar, Ofer H.; Bar-Eli, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
payoffs are a common knowledge, the players have huge incentives to play correctly, the game is simple enough to analyze, its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615621
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Free Ride, Take it Easy: An Empirical Analysis of Adverse Incentives Caused by Revenue Sharing
Daniel, Rascher; Matt, Brown; Mark, Nagel; Chad, McEvoy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
the National Football League’s potential unintended consequences of creating the incentive for some teams to free ride on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685513