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In this paper we consider trends in the distribution of player talent across association football clubs over time. Player talent is the most important prerequisite for team success in professional sports leagues and changes in players' assortativeness in regard to the clubs they play for may...
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literature on superstars in sport as a determinant for demand. The econometric analysis uses NFL stadium attendance data between … 2009 and 2019 to examine the question of the relationship of social media and stadium attendance. It applies censored tobit … attendance, even when controlling for the metropolitan area where the stadium is located. It argues that our commonly used …
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, supporting the UOH for TV audiences and furthering the discussion around diverging preferences between stadium attendance and TV …, supporting the UOH for TV audiences and furthering the discussion around diverging preferences between stadium attendance and TV …
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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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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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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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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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management can hardly influence (e.g., potential scheduling effects, the visiting team's quality, and the weather). In contrast … Swiss Super League club. Analyzing a rich data set containing roughly 2.09 million attendance decisions made by ticket …
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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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We analyse the spatial attendance spillover applying spatial panel-data models with the Italian Football League data … was evident in earlier seasons (2001-2013), but modest spatial spillover was in play from 2013 to 2016. In addition, cross-quality … on attendance distribution and then competitive balance; spillover implies an interaction between the two exclusive …
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