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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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The impact of participation in sports on educational attainment: new evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - 2007
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical … Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport … into sport, we find strong evidence that the effect of sport on educational attainment is statistically significant and …
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Zur empirischen Prüfbarkeit des homo (socio-)oeconomicus anhand der Messung der Motive ehrenamtlichen Engagements in Sportvereinen
Flatau, Jens; Emrich, Eike; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2013
Unter der Annahme eines prinzipiell seinen Nutzen zu maximieren versuchenden den homo socio-oeconomicus sollten entsprechende Motive aus der Vielzahl theoretisch denkbarer Motive zu ehrenamtlichem Engagement dominant sein. Da diese Motive jedoch im Gegensatz zu altruistischen sozial...
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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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Estimating the option value of exercising risk-taking behavior with the hedonic market approach
Borsky, Stefan; Raschky, Paul A. - 2008
Within the last decades an increasing number of people practice risky sports in their leisure time. Although there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293422
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404957
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Are Voluntary Agreements Better? Evidence from Baseball Arbitration
Budd, John W.; Sojourner, Aaron J.; Jung, Jaewoo - 2014
This paper empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than third-party imposed settlements, such as arbitrator decisions or court judgments. Two key outcomes are analyzed – subsequent player performance and the...
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