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Does the home advantage depend on crowd support? : evidence from same-stadium derbies

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014

We investigate to what extent crowd support contributes to the home advantage in soccer, disentangling this effect from other mechanisms such as players' familiarity with the stadium and travel fatigue. To evaluate the relevance of crowd support in determining home advantage we analyze...

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Too busy for school? : the effect of athletic participation on absenteeism

Cuffe, Harold E.; Waddell, Glen R.; Bignell, Wesley - 2014

While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and labour-market outcomes, the mechanisms through which these benefits accrue are not well established. We use data from a large public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the...

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Experimental effects of an absent crowd on performances and refereeing decisions during COVID-19

Bryson, Alex; Dolton, Peter J.; Reade, J. James; … - 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has induced worldwide natural experiments on the effects of crowds. We exploit one of these experiments currently taking place over several countries in almost identical settings: professional football matches played behind closed doors. We find large and statistically...

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Using reminders with different reward opportunities to reduce no-show behavior : empirical evidence from a large-scale field experiment in professional sports

Schreyer, Dominik; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; Torgler, Benno - 2020 - This version: October 01, 2020

Because no-show behavior typically leads to operational inefficiencies and thus diminishing returns for service firms, a growing number of authors have demonstrated the potential of using reminders to reduce no-show rates. In this study, by examining the behavioral responses of 13,911 season...

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Football spectator no-show behavior in Switzerland : empirical evidence from season ticket holder behavior

Schreyer, Dominik; Torgler, Benno - 2021 - This version: February 10, 2021

Swiss Super League club. Analyzing a rich data set containing roughly 2.09 million attendance decisions made by ticket …

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Major League Baseball and the competition for leisure dollars in America, 1920-1941

Surdam, David G.; Kanago, Bryce Eldon; Brown, Kenneth H. - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 39 (2021), pp. 1-17

both home attendance and owners' net income between 1920 and 1941. Team performance, home runs, number of Sundays a team … had home games, the installation of lighting, and radio broadcasts of games, all raised attendance while increases in the … unemployment rate had no effect on real net income. All the other variables that raised attendance also raised real net income. …

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Spatial attendance spillover in football leagues

Jang, Hayley; Shin, Yongcheol - In: International journal of empirical economics 1 (2022) 3, pp. 1-24

We analyse the spatial attendance spillover applying spatial panel-data models with the Italian Football League data … on attendance distribution and then competitive balance; spillover implies an interaction between the two exclusive … create attendance variations across member teams. The final outcome depends on the spillover sign, the network structure, and …

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Against all odds? : national sentiment and wagering on European football

Braun, Sebastian (contributor); … - 2008

This paper studies how national sentiment in the form of either a perception or a loyalty bias of bettors may affect pricing patterns on national wagering markets for international sport events. We show theoretically that both biases can be profitably exploited by bookmakers by way of price...

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Die Markenstrategie des Deutschen Lotto-Toto-Blocks unter dem Einfluss des Bundesverfassungsgerichts

Albers, Norman (contributor) - 2008

Sport betting is in Germany, like other public lotteries, strictly regulated as a state monopoly. This state monopoly has been declared as an illegitimate fiscal monopoly by the German Supreme Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) in March 2006. Following this sentence, a state monopoly in future has...

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Expert analysis and insider information in horserace betting : regulating informed market behavior

Peirson, John (contributor); Smith, Michael A. (contributor) - 2008

We present a new model analyzing the effect of uncertainty faced by bookmakers. It is shown that bettors with inside information or expert analysis decrease the odds set by profit maximizing bookmakers. Data on previously unraced two year old horses and those that have raced previously are used...

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