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¡Fútbol! : is there a Latin American bias in the European Champions League?
Posso, Alberto; Fry, Tim R. L.; Gangemi, Michael; … - In: Journal of sports economics 17 (2016) 3, pp. 219-233
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Distance matters! : evidence from professional team sports
Oberhofer, Harald; Philippovich, Tassilo; Winner, Hannes - 2008
This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue …. To test this hypothesis empirically, we investigate 6,389 away games from the German Football Premier League ('Erste … and conceded goals ('goal difference') as a measure of the overall success of a football team, we observe a significant …
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Trends in competitive balance : is there evidence for growing imbalance in professional sport leagues?
Feddersen, Arne; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2005 - Version: January 2005
The concept of competitive balance is a central aspect in the literature of sports economics. A popular argumentation of sport functionaries is that dominance of one or a few teams could lead to unequal incomes for the clubs, restrictions in the clubs' ability to improve sporting performance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009271080
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Expectations as Reference Points : Field Evidence from Experienced Subjects in a Competitive, High-Stakes Environment
Bartling, Björn - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105143
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Expectations as reference points : field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009742603
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Expectations as reference points : field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment
Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540777
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What makes you "super-rich"? : new evidence from an analysis of football players' earnings
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Principe, Francesco; Raitano, Michele - 2017
dataset of Italian football players built on various sources of data. Using OLS, Panel and Unconditional Quantile regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619358
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Trends in Competitive Balance : Is There Evidence for Growing Imbalance in Professional Sport Leagues?
Feddersen, Arne; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2009
The concept of competitive balance is a central aspect in the literature of sports economics. A popular argumentation of sport functionaries is that dominance of one or a few teams could lead to unequal incomes for the clubs, restrictions in the clubs’ ability to improve sporting performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200058
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Spatial attendance spillover in football leagues
Jang, Hayley; Shin, Yongcheol - In: International journal of empirical economics 1 (2022) 3, pp. 1-24
We analyse the spatial attendance spillover applying spatial panel-data models with the Italian Football League data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014331902
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Contracts as Rent Seeking Devices : Evidence from German Soccer
Feess, Eberhard; Gerfin, Michael; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2021
Recent theoretical research has identified many ways how contracts can be used as rent seeking devices vis-à-vis third parties, but there is no empirical evidence on this issue so far. To test some basic qualitative properties of this literature, we develop a theoretical and empirical framework...
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