This article analyses how long head coaches survive in the clubs of the first German football league ('Bundesliga'), where the dismissal of a presumably weak coach is a generally adopted procedure in case of a poor sporting performance of the team. We use duration models for repeated events to...

This article analyzes the dismissal of head coaches in the top tier of German professional football, the "Bundesliga". A random parameter logit model is used to analyse the characteristics that are associated with the probability of a coach to be dismissed, taking into account uncontrolled...

This article analyzes how long head coaches survive in the clubs of the first German football league (“Bundesliga”), where the dismissal of a presumably weak coach is a generally adopted procedure in case of a poor sporting performance of the team. We use duration models for repeated events...