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Rugby league in Australia between 2001 and 2012 : an analysis of home advantage and salary cap violations
Longden, Thomas; Kannard, Greg - 2014
Within this paper, we review whether incidences of salary cap circumvention within the Australian professional rugby league competition led to improved home team wins during the period between 2001 and 2012. In doing so, we show that while the salary cap breach amounts can be attributed to an...
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Are athletes on the right track? : the effect of availability of an aAll-weather athletics track on athletics performance
Hogan, Seamus D.; Watt, Richard - 2016
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Who gets promoted to the top? Nuanced personality and psychosocial trait differences in highly structured work environments : evidence from German professional female athletes
Krause, Felix; Chan, Ho Fai; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; … - 2021 - This version: April 16, 2021
today's changing environment. Analyzing data from 299 German athletes from different sports contexts, 159 of which are … for the genderinvariant role demands perspective as the female athletes who made it to the highest possible ranks do not … support for the gender-invariant role demands perspective in explaining the relative speed of male and female athletes …
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Productivity, wages, and marriage : a case study in professional athletics
Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E. - 2017
The effect of marriage on productivity and wages has been long debated. A difficulty in estimating the effect of … this gap by using a sample of professional athletes from 1975 - 2007. Our results show that there is little correlation … between individual measures of productivity and marriage, yet, wages are up to 15 percent higher for some married players. We …
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Extractive industries, revenue allocation and local politics
Arellano-Yanguas, Francisco Javier; Mejía Acosta, Andrés - 2014
The success of a developmental strategy based on the extraction of non-renewable resources is largely dependent on the share of revenues captured by the state from the extractive sector and the modalities that governments adopt to use and distribute those revenues. In the last two decades, local...
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The pros and cons of butterfly barbells
Christensen, Michael - 2002
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Combined effects of load factors and booking time on fares : insights from the yield management of a low-cost airline
Alderighi, Marco; Nicolini, Marcella; Piga, Claudio A. - 2012
Based on two strands of theoretical research, this paper provides new evidence on how fares are jointly affected by in-flight seat availability and purchasing date. As capacity-driven theories predict, it emerges that fares monotonically and substantially increase with the flights occupancy...
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Coaches on fire or firing the coach? : evidence of the impact of coach changes on team performance from Italian Serie A
Argentieri, Alessandro; Canova, Luciano; Manera, Matteo - 2019
In this paper, football data from the 2007/2008 to 2016/2017 seasons of the Italian Serie A were used to identify the effects of replacing a coach mid-season due to poor team performance. We used an instrumental variable approach to correlate coach turnover within a season with player...
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Collusion in college sports: Edward C. O'Bannon, et al., v. NCAA, et al. (2015)
Noll, Roger G. - 2018
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