Die sozio-ökonomischen Einflussfaktoren der Olympischen Medaillengewinne von 1960 bis 2004 werden mithilfe einer Tobit-Analyse geschätzt. Frühere Arbeiten werden bestätigt, wonach das Bruttoinlandproduktes pro Kopf, die Bevölkerungsgröße, der Heimvorteil, das Vorliegen eines...

This paper investigates whether a nation's contingent value of hosting a mega-event depends on past experience with implied public goods benefits for its residents. Applying data from an ex-ante and ex-post query based on contingent valuation methods, we use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural...

We investigate the relationship between consumer discrimination, racial matching strategies, and employer discrimination in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1985 to 2016. To this end, we assess the extent to which both fan attendance and team performance respond to changes in teams' and their...

We provide evidence for heterogeneous consumer preferences for product quality and game outcome uncertainty (GOU) in Major League Baseball. Using attendance data from 2013 to 2019, we explore functional data clustering techniques to detect common patterns in predictive margins of team-specific...

Wir berechnen einen neuartigen internationalen Maßstab für pharmazeutische Innovationskraft, indem wir uns auf die weltweiten medizinischen Durchbrüche und die dort zitierten Patente konzentrieren. Diese Berechnungsweise ist (über den Bereich der Lebenswissenschaften hinaus) bedeutsam, weil...

Die Medaillenprojektion von Maennig/Wellbrock für die Olympischen Sommerspiele 2016 sagt vorher: Deutschland wird von Japan überholt, Russland-Bann ohne große Auswirkungen, Brasilien macht großen Satz nach vorn, USA und China bleiben führend.

To assess the likely effects of population ageing on the outcomes of direct democracy, we analyze the effect of age on voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case study of the Stuttgart 21 referendum on one of the...

We examine the short- and medium-term effects of announcements of changes in anti-crime policies in the distant future (news shocks) and provide a first extension of the analysis to cases where the announced policy changes may not be realized in the end (noise shocks). We further innovate by...

Adding to the extensive political and legal debates on data retention, this is the first study to analyse the impacts of data retention on crime prevention in Europe. Using an estimator that captures dynamic effects and is robust to heterogeneous treatment effects, we find a significant negative...

This study investigates the impact of differences in consumers’ racial preferences on worker productivity through the example of the home advantage (HA) effect using data on wins in men’s professional tennis from 2001 to 2020 (pre-COVID-19). We identify players’ racial...