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The NBA’s Maximum Player Salary and the Distribution of Player Rents
Hastings, Kelly M.; Stephenson, Frank - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 3 (2015) 2, pp. 75-83
The NBA’s 1999 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) included provisions capping individual player pay in addition to … team payrolls. This study examines the effect the NBA’s maximum player salary on player rents by comparing player pay from …
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The Length and Success of NBA Careers: Does College Production Predict Professional Outcomes?
Coates, Dennis; Oguntimein, Babatunde - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 5 (2010) 1, pp. 4-26
the length of the career. At issue is the effectiveness of NBA executives in identifying college players who will be …
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The impact of the disposition effect on asset prices: insight from the NBA
Borghesi, Richard - In: Journal of Economics and Finance 38 (2014) 4, pp. 698-711
In this paper we examine the price movements of contracts that represent bets on NBA games and find that the …
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Is There Salary Discrimination by Nationality in the NBA?
Yang, Chih-Hai; Lin, Hsuan-Yu - In: Journal of Sports Economics 13 (2012) 1, pp. 53-75
The authority of the National Basketball Association (NBA) over the past decade has actively internationalized the game … salaries for NBA players, aiming to identify the existence of nationality discrimination on players’ salary and whether the … 618 NBA players between the 1999-2000 and 2007-2008 seasons and employing the technique of two-stage double fixed …
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Performance Under Pressure in the NBA
Cao, Zheng; Price, Joseph; Stone, Daniel F. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 12 (2011) 3, pp. 231-252
The authors analyze the effects of psychological pressure on performance using National Basketball Association (NBA …
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The NBA Draft
Arel, Barbara; III, Michael J. Tomas - In: Journal of Sports Economics 13 (2012) 3, pp. 223-249
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has a fixed salary schedule that allows us to examine this labor market to …’s perspective. Early entry into the NBA draft is similar to the decision to exercise an American style put option early; the draftee …
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Do white NBA players suffer from reverse discrimination?
Ajilore, Olugbenga - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 1, pp. 558-566
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has been fertile ground for the study of discrimination due to demographic … accustomed to African-Americans in the NBA. Recent research has now shown that the pendulum has swung in the other direction and … there exist reverse discrimination with White athletes in the NBA. Following Altonji and Pierret (2001), I use a statistical …
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Misses in “Hot Hand†Research
Arkes, Jeremy - In: Journal of Sports Economics 14 (2013) 4, pp. 401-410
Until recently, no study has found evidence for the “hot hand†in the National Basketball Association. Thus, many researchers have claimed that the hot hand and momentum effects are myths. This article presents simulations that demonstrate how the primary methods for estimating the hot...
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Give Freakonomics a Chance
Ayres, Ian - In: The Economists' Voice 4 (2007) 5, pp. 1-1
An NBA referee has now pleaded guilty, and forensic economists have found signs of bias and cheating in the NBA …, college basketball and sumo wresting. Ian Ayres argues that the NBA should release referee data to allow forensic economists …
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Sentiment Bias in National Basketball Association Betting
Feddersen, Arne; Humphreys, Brad; Soebbing, Brian - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2013
We develop evidence of bettors with sentiment bias in the betting market on National Basketball Association (NBA) games … presence of biased investors. Analysis of point spreads and bet outcomes for more than 33,000 NBA games played in 1981 …
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