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Cost Incentives in European Football
Feddersen, Arne; Humphreys, Brad; Soebbing, Brian P. - Department of Economics, University of Alberta - 2012
We examine the effects of financial incentives on effort supplied by football clubs in European domestic leagues …
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Winning by Losing: Incentive Incompatibility in Multiple Qualifiers
Dagaev, Dmitry; Sonin, Konstantin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
In sport tournaments, the rules are presumably structured in a way that any team cannot be better off (e.g., to advance to the next round of competition) by losing instead of winning a game. Starting with a real-world example, we demonstrate that the existing national rules of awarding places...
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Why did Spain win Euro 2008 Football Tournament?
HALICIOGLU, Ferda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
football tournaments. …
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Research on the Prediction of the likely Winners of the Euro 2008 Football Tournament
Halicioglu, Ferda - In: Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports 5 (2009) 3, pp. 1-1
football tournaments with particular reference to the Euro 2008 football tournament. This research argues that there exists a … positive relationship between the competitive balance and success in international football tournaments. The level of the … competitive balance in a domestic football league is measured by the seasonal coefficients of variation (CV) of the end …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046697
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Research on the Prediction of the likely Winners of the Euro 2008 Football Tournament
Halicioglu, Ferda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
football tournaments with particular reference to the Euro 2008 football tournament. This research argues that there exists a … positive relationship between the competitive balance and success in international football tournaments. The level of the … competitive balance in a domestic football league is measured by the seasonal coefficients of variation (CV) of the end …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005055520
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Forecasting the Professional Team Sporting Events: Evidence from Euro 2000 and 2004 Football Tournaments
HALICIOGLU, Ferda - EconWPA - 2005
This study aims at predicting the most likely winners of international football tournaments. To this end, this paper …-of-season points from domestic football leagues to measure the degree of competitive balance and to use it as a comparative indicator … between the contesting countries in international football tournaments. The seasonal CV values computed from over ten seasons …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412888
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On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis
Alavy, Kevin; Gaskell, Alison; Leach, Stephanie; … - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between the demand for English football on television and outcome uncertainty. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731663
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Tilting the Playing Field (Why a sports league planner would choose less, not more, competitive balance): The case of English Football
Szymanski, Stefan; Leach, Stephanie - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE; … - 2006
football to show just how unbalanced a league planner would choose. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731676
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On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis
Alavy, Kevin; Gaskell, Alison; Leach, Stephanie; … - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 5 (2010) 2, pp. 75-95
This paper examines the relationship between the demand for English football on television and outcome uncertainty. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010615274
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Testing the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis in European Professional Football
Pawlowski, Tim - In: Journal of Sports Economics 14 (2013) 4, pp. 341-367
Previous research based on revealed preferences cannot assess whether (increasingly imbalanced) football competitions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010698637