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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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....

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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...

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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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Maximum likelihood ranking in racing sports

Anderson, Aaron M. - In: Applied economics 46 (2014) 13/15, pp. 1778-1787

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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

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Twin peaks : expressive externality in group participation

Levine, David K.; Modica, Salvatore; Sun, Junze - In: Journal of public economic theory 25 (2023) 5, pp. 897-929

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