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The rainmaker?! : the impact of investors on transfer fees in the English Premier League

Richau, Lukas; Follert, Florian; Frenger, Monika; … - 2021

Transfer fees in European football have experienced a rapid increase in the past years. Simultaneously, an increasing … number of domestic and recently foreign investors - who are assumed to further increase team spending in European football … - have entered the football market by becoming club owners. In light of these developments, fears associated with an …

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Is the NFL's Pro Bowl broken? : considering the players' perspective

Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, Philipp - 2021

This paper examines the growing trend of NFL players to forego participation in the league's yearly All-Star Game, the Pro Bowl. Viewership of the Pro Bowl has been substantially lower than the average game day in recent years, causing controversial discussions about the viability of the game...

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Competitive balance and assortative matching in the German Bundesliga

Sittl, Roman; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2016

In this paper we consider trends in the distribution of player talent across association football clubs over time …

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Fatigue and team performance in soccer : evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship

Scoppa, Vincenzo - In: Journal of sports economics 16 (2015) 5, pp. 482-507

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Fatigue and team performance in soccer : evidence from the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship

Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013

We investigate the role of fatigue in soccer (football). Although this issue is important for the "productivity" of … the UEFA European Football Championship (from 1960 to 2012). We relate team performance (in terms of points gained and …

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Weather conditions, travel distance, rest, and running performance : the 2014 FIFA World Cup and implications for the future

Watanabe, Nicholas; Wicker, Pamela; Yan, Grace - In: Journal of sport management : the official journal of … 31 (2017) 1, pp. 27-43

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Mind the absent gap : gender-specific competitiveness in non-professional sports

Pikos, Anna Katharina; Straub, Alexander - 2019 - This version: March 26, 2019

There is wide evidence for gender differences in competitiveness and performance under pressure from experimental economics and single-sex professional sports. We analyze these differences in a sport with direct gender competition. Our unique data consists of over 500,000 observations from...

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