This paper provides a study on conflicts of interest among college football coaches participating in the USA Today … individual coach ballots between 2005 and 2010, we find that coaches distort their rankings to reflect their own team … favorably and boost their own team's ranking more than two full positions. Coaches also rank teams they defeated more favorably …

win per season for a professional football team … pitch type in Major League Baseball and whether to run or pass in the National Football League. We observe more than three … million pitches in baseball and 125,000 play choices for football. We find systematic deviations from minimax play in both …

shortening close games where the home team is ahead, and lengthening close games where the home team is behind. They show no such …

This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of football players in Europe …. We construct a panel dataset of top earnings tax rates, football player careers, and club performances in the first … number of tax and institutional changes: (a) the 1995 Bosman ruling which liberalized the European football market, (b) top …

contemporary labor issues in North America and Europe, from reserve rules and free agency, high levels of player pay and work … restrictions on competition. The problem of (excess) incentives to compete leading to externalities and inefficiencies are noted …

inflation, other countries both in Europe and elsewhere have also had a decade of low inflation without incurring the costs of a …

Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this … product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding … with step-by-step innovation models predicting that product market competition enhances innovation and, more importantly …

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million …-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …