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Does the home advantage depend on crowd support? : evidence from same-stadium derbies

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014

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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Too busy for school? : the effect of athletic participation on absenteeism

Cuffe, Harold E.; Waddell, Glen R.; Bignell, Wesley - 2014

While existing research supports that participation in high-school athletics is associated with better education and labour-market outcomes, the mechanisms through which these benefits accrue are not well established. We use data from a large public-school district to retrieve an estimate of the...

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Using reminders with different reward opportunities to reduce no-show behavior : empirical evidence from a large-scale field experiment in professional sports

Schreyer, Dominik; Schmidt, Sascha Leonard; Torgler, Benno - 2020 - This version: October 01, 2020

Because no-show behavior typically leads to operational inefficiencies and thus diminishing returns for service firms, a growing number of authors have demonstrated the potential of using reminders to reduce no-show rates. In this study, by examining the behavioral responses of 13,911 season...

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Football spectator no-show behavior in Switzerland : empirical evidence from season ticket holder behavior

Schreyer, Dominik; Torgler, Benno - 2021 - This version: February 10, 2021

Swiss Super League club. Analyzing a rich data set containing roughly 2.09 million attendance decisions made by ticket …

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Major League Baseball and the competition for leisure dollars in America, 1920-1941

Surdam, David G.; Kanago, Bryce Eldon; Brown, Kenneth H. - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 39 (2021), pp. 1-17

both home attendance and owners' net income between 1920 and 1941. Team performance, home runs, number of Sundays a team … had home games, the installation of lighting, and radio broadcasts of games, all raised attendance while increases in the … unemployment rate had no effect on real net income. All the other variables that raised attendance also raised real net income. …

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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 … on attendance distribution and then competitive balance; spillover implies an interaction between the two exclusive … create attendance variations across member teams. The final outcome depends on the spillover sign, the network structure, and …

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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

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Globalisation of sports

Dilger, Alexander - 2023

Globalisation affects not only politics and the economy, but also sport, which has become significantly more international, competitive and financially powerful. This is particularly advantageous for most consumers or spectators. Especially top athletes benefit, while not so good athletes can...

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Doping in teams: A simple decision theoretic model

Dilger, Alexander - 2017

A simple decision theoretic model shows the doping incentives for a member of a professional sports team. Depending on the detection probability and the punishment, a sportsman dopes not at all, at a medium or at the maximal level. The whole team has a higher incentive than an individual team...

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