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Who Profits From Amateurism? Rent-Sharing in Modern College Sports

Garthwaite, Craig - 2020

rents flow to women's sports and other men's sports and lead to increased spending on facilities, coaches' salaries, and … other athletic department personnel. Using complete roster data for every student-athlete playing sports at these schools in … collective bargaining agreements in professional sports leagues as a benchmark. We also discuss how our results help understand …

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Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries?

Giroud, Xavier - 2009

By reducing the threat of a hostile takeover, business combination (BC) laws weaken corporate governance and increase the opportunity for managerial slack. Consistent with the notion that competition mitigates managerial slack, we find that while firms in non-competitive industries experience a...

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Do Hot Hands Exist Among Hedge Fund Managers? An Empirical Evaluation

Jagannathan, Ravi - 2006

We examine whether hot hands exist among hedge fund managers. In measuring performance persistence, we use hedge fund style benchmarks. This allows us to identify managers with valuable skills, and also to control for option-like features inherent in returns from hedge fund strategies. We take...

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Judging Under Public Pressure

Cohen, Alma; Neeman, Zvika; Auferoth, Florian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Individuals who engage in "judging" - that is, rendering a determination in a dispute or contest between two parties - might be influenced by public pressure to favor one of the parties. Many rules and arrangements seek to insulate such individuals from public pressure or to address the effects...

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It's Fourth Down and What Does the Bellman Equation Say? A Dynamic Programming Analysis of Football Strategy

Romer, David - 2002

This paper uses play-by-play accounts of virtually all regular season National Football League games for 1998-2000 to analyze teams' choices on fourth down between trying for a first down and kicking. Dynamic programming is used to estimate the values of possessing the ball at different points...

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Supervisors and Performance Management Systems

Frederiksen, Anders - 2017

Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...

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How Managers Can Use Purchaser Performance Information to Improve Procurement Efficiency

Celhay, Pablo A.; Gertler, Paul J.; Olivares, Marcelo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine the effect of performance monitoring in public procurement through the lens of organizational culture in a principal-agent model where the manager (principal) and buyers (agents) may have different beliefs about how much the government values efficiency. We show that the effect of...

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Athletes Greatly Benefit from Participation in Sports at the College and Secondary Level

Heckman, James J.; Loughlin, Colleen P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

participation in sports for student athletes. Anecdotes about the exploitation of student athletes were cited in the opinion. This …

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Time Spent Exercising and Obesity : An Application of Lewbel’s Instrumental Variables Method

Courtemanche, Charles J. - 2020

This paper examines the role physical activity plays in determining body mass using data from the American Time Use Survey. Our work is the first to address the measurement error that arises when time use during a single day--rather than average daily time use over an extended period--is used as...

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Estimation of a Dynamic Model of Weight

Ng, Shu Wen - 2010

The ongoing debate about the economic causes of obesity has focused on the changing relative prices of diet and exercise. This paper uses a model that explicitly includes time and spatially varying community-level urbanicity and price measures as instruments to obtain statistically correct...

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