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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
league competition led to improved home team wins during the period between 2001 and 2012. In doing so, we show that while …
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A method for inferring batting conditions in ODI cricket from historical data
Brooker, Scott; Hogan, Seamus D. - 2011
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Optimal switching from competition to cooperation : a preliminary exploration
Boucekkine, Raouf; Camacho, Carmen; Zou, Benteng - 2020
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Contest with attack and defence : does negative campaigning increase or decrease voters' turnout?
Soubeyran, Raphae͏̈l (contributor) - 2005
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Designing contests between heterogeneous contestants : an experimental study of tie-breaks and bid-caps in all-pay auctions
Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Szech, Nora - 2016
A well-known theoretical result in the contest literature is that greater heterogeneity decreases performance of contestants because of the "discouragement effect." Leveling the playing field by favoring weaker contestants through bid-caps and favorable tie-breaking rules can reduce the...
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Effects of defensive and proactive measures on competition between terrorist groups
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Sandler, Todd - 2021
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Competition in signaling
Vaccari, Federico - 2022
I study a multi-sender signaling game between an uninformed decision maker and two senders with common private information and conflicting interests. Senders can misreport information at a cost that is tied to the size of the misrepresentation. The main results concern the amount of information...
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Welfare in experimental news markets
Albertazzi, Andrea; Ploner, Matteo; Vaccari, Federico - 2022
We perform a controlled experiment to study the welfare effects of competition in a strategic communication environment … competition between senders does not increase the amount of information decision-makers obtain. We find evidence of under … off under competition because their relative gains from persuasion are more than offset by their expenditures in …
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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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Productivity, wages, and marriage : a case study in professional athletics
Cornaglia, Francesca; Feldman, Naomi E. - 2017
this gap by using a sample of professional athletes from 1975 - 2007. Our results show that there is little correlation …
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