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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752840
An attendance equation is estimated using data on individual games played in the Spanish First Division Football League … on attendance for all the variables. The estimated price elasticities are smaller than one in absolute value as usually …
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Introduction – 1. Theoretical aspects – 2. Demand definition, data andempirical model – 3. Determinants of attendance … (I): Economical aspects – 4.Determinants of attendance (II): Expected quality – 5. Determinants of attendance …(III): Uncertainty of outcome – 6. Determinants of attendance (IV): Opportunity cost and other factors – Conclusions – Abstract In this …
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investigate the effect of sporting and economic variables on the attendance in Greek football stadia. Price, income and …
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) offers unique data to investigate the issue. The announcement of a PED violation: (a) initially reduces home-game attendance … by 8 percent, (b) has no impact on home-game attendance after 15 days, and (c) has a small negative impact on the game … attendance for other MLB teams. This is the first systematic evidence that doping decreases consumer demand for sporting events. …
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Although Major League Baseball (MLB) has a long history, most studies of attendance have focused on recent years … fill gaps in the data by analyzing individual team attendance records between 1904 and 2012. If important missing variables … are determined using common factors that can influence between-teams attendance, the attendance function can be estimated …
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Habit formation in sports game attendance is crucial for sports businesses. Teams with strong habitual attendance sell … more tickets and can command higher ticket prices compared with teams without habitual attendance, assuming all other … to form attendance habits. This paper revisits this issue using updated panel data, as there have been recent changes in …
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We investigate the possibility that new facilities affect attendance - the "novelty effect" - in professional baseball …, basketball, and football from 1969-2001 by estimating the parameters of a reduced form attendance model. Our results indicate a … team 163,436 over the first five seasons. This increase in attendance also suggests a corresponding increase in revenues …
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This study explores the forecasting of Major League Baseball game ticket sales and identifies important attendance … lagged attendance forecast. My empirical results show high variation in team-specific prediction accuracy with respect to …
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