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Game of Organizing International Cricket: Co-Existence of Country-Line and Club-Line Games
Das, Satya Prasanna - 2008
The paper presents an economic model of interaction between cricket boards, players and international club-line games sponsors like ICL or IPL. It attempts to capture the inherent conflict between such games and country-line games traditionally organized by cricket boards. It identifies the...
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Game of Organizing International Cricket: Co-Existence of Country-Line and Club-Line Games
Das, Satya Prasanna - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-32, pp. 1-29
The paper presents an economic model of interaction between cricket boards, players and international club-line games sponsors like ICL or IPL. It attempts to capture the inherent conflict between such games and country-line games traditionally organized by cricket boards. It identifies the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298616
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Optimally scheduling real world sports leagues by reduction to SAT
Horbach, Andrei; Bartsch, Thomas; Briskorn, Dirk - 2009
Several types of constraints must be satisfied by schedules of real world sports leagues, e. g. stadium unavailability … constraints are considered as 'soft' ones. There are various models appropriately describing the environment of real sport leagues … here a model which satisfies the demands of many sports leagues. We solve our model by a method which consists in …
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local … facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on … employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329113
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Body weight and socio-economic determinants: Quantile estimations from the British Household Panel Survey
Pieroni, Luca; Salmasi, Luca - 2010
This work examines the socio-economic determinants of body weight in UK by means of two recent waves from the British Household Panel Survey. Our results support some findings in the literature, but also point to new conclusions and show that quantile regression estimates are quite different...
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Evidenzbasierte Bestimmung des Leistungskatalogs im Gesundheitswesen? Das Beispiel des englischen National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Rothgang, Heinz; Niebuhr, Dea; Wasem, Jürgen; Greß, Stefan - 2004
Das englische National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) wird in der bundesdeutschen Diskussion um die Reform der Institutionen zur Konkretisierung des Leistungskatalogs in der GKV entweder als Vorbild oder als abschreckendes Beispiel genannt. Die Analyse der von NICE angewandten...
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A cost-effectiveness analysis of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prophylaxis in infants in the United Kingdom /
Bentley, Anthony; Filipovic, Ivana; Gooch, Katherine; … - In: Health Economics Review 3 (2013) 18, pp. 1-12
Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of respiratory infection that is highly prevalent in infants. Severe cases of RSV infection require hospitalisation; this is most likely to occur in infant populations at high risk. The study assesses the cost-effectiveness of...
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Work Hours Constraints and Health
Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011
The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...
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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...
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A suggested method for the measurement of world leading research: (illustrated with data on economics)
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009
Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....
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