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Gamblers' rationality in parimutuel soccer betting: Strategisches Spielverhalten bei Totalisatorspielen mit nicht-gleichwahrscheinlichen Spielausgängen wie Toto und Torwette
Hauser, Ursula; König, Ulrich; Krylova, Elizaveta - 2000
Wir entwickeln ein Modell für strategisches Spielverhalten bei Glücksspielen nach dem Totalisatorprinzip und wenden es auf die Fußballwettspiele Toto und Torwette an. Unter der Annahme, dass Buchmacherquoten die wahren Ausgangswahrscheinlichkeiten der betreffenden Fußballspiele reflektieren,...
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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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Join the Club - On the Attractiveness of Golf Club Membership
Lundberg, Johan; Lundberg, Sofia - 2004
substitute to publicly financed goods. Keywords: spatial econometrics, sports, utility maximization JEL classification: D71, L83 …
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Youth sports and the accumulation of human capital
Leeds, Michael A. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
In response to declining budgets, many school districts in the US have reduced funding for sports. In Europe, parents … may respond to difficult economic times by spending less on sports clubs for their children. Such cuts are unwise if … participating in sports is an investment good as well as a consumption good and adds to students' human capital. The value of sports …
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The penalty-duel and institutional design: is there a Neeskens-effect?
Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - 2008
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Consumer perceptions matter: A case study of an anomaly in English football
Reade, J. James; van Ours, Jan C. - 2024
In 1983 England's fifth-tier football competition introduced a two-points-for-ahome-win and three-points-for-an-away-win reward system. This system was abolished after three seasons. The anomalous point system may have been introduced to reduce home advantage but the reasons are not fully clear...
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No Better Moment to Score a Goal than Just Before Half Time? A Soccer Myth Statistically Tested
Baert, Stijn; Amez, Simon - 2016
We test the soccer myth suggesting that a particularly good moment to score a goal is just before half time. To this end, rich data on 1,179 games played in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League are analysed. In contrast to the myth, we find that, conditional on the goal difference...
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Sports and Regional Growth in Sweden - Is a successful professional sports team good for regional economic growth?
Värja, Emelie - 2014
local sports team enters or exits the premium national leagues in ice hockey or soccer in Sweden. Local governments …
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Globalisation of sports
Dilger, Alexander - 2023
enter and win international competitions, although richer nations retain advantages. All in all, globalisation of sports is … nicht um ein Nullsummenspiel, sondern überwiegen die Vorteile der Globalisierung des Sports. …
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