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The penalty-duel and institutional design: is there a Neeskens-effect?
Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - 2008
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264282
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Gamblers' rationality in parimutuel soccer betting: Strategisches Spielverhalten bei Totalisatorspielen mit nicht-gleichwahrscheinlichen Spielausgängen wie Toto und Torwette
Hauser, Ursula; König, Ulrich; Krylova, Elizaveta - 2000
Wir entwickeln ein Modell für strategisches Spielverhalten bei Glücksspielen nach dem Totalisatorprinzip und wenden es auf die Fußballwettspiele Toto und Torwette an. Unter der Annahme, dass Buchmacherquoten die wahren Ausgangswahrscheinlichkeiten der betreffenden Fußballspiele reflektieren,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292739
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Performance and risk taking under threat of elimination
Adams, Nathan R.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2017
We revisit the incentive effects of elimination tournaments with a fresh approach to identification, the results of which strongly support that performance improves under the threat of elimination and does so, but only in part, due to increases in risk taking. Where we can separately identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731884
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Why Qualifications at the Olympics?
Blavatskyy, Pavlo R. - 2004
The optimal contest architecture for symmetric imperfectly discriminating contests is shown to be generically the two-stage tournament (rather than the one-stage contest). In the first stage the contestants compete in several parallel divisions for the right to participate in the second stage....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069376
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The Economics of Corruption in Sports : The Special Case of Doping
Dimant, Eugen; Deutscher, Christian - 2015
Corruption in general and doping in particular are ubiquitous in both amateur and professional sports and have taken … principle of sports. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive literature overview of the individual’s incentive to dope, the … environment. We stress that in order to ensure clean sports and fair competition, more sophisticated measurement methods have to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014139269
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The Economics of Corruption in Sports - The Special Case of Doping
Dimant, Eugen; Deutscher, Christian - 2014
Corruption in general and doping in particular are ubiquitous in both amateur and professional sports and have taken … sports. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive literature overview of the individual drivers to dope, the concomitant … that in order to ensure clean sports and fair competition, more sophisticated measurement methods have to be evolved and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014139923
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Matching and Mobility in the Market for Australian Rules Football Coaches
Borland, Jeff; Lye, Jenny N. - 1998
This study examines matching effects as a determinant of mobility in the market for Australian Rules football coaches between 1931 and 1994. Among other results, the authors find direct evidence, consistent with match theory, of a coach- team match-specific effect on team performance; that is, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014117648
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Strategy selection and outcome prediction in sport using dynamic learning for stochastic processes
Percy, David Frank - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society : OR 66 (2015) 11, pp. 1840-1849
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Managing losses in exotic horse race wagering
Deza, Antoine; Huang, Kai - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society 69 (2018) 3, pp. 319-325
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Properties of sports ranking methods
Vaziri, Baback; Dabadghao, Shaunak; Yih, Yuehwern; … - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society 69 (2018) 5, pp. 776-787
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225896