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The Effects of Labor Strikes on Consumer Demand: A Re-examination of Major League Baseball
Matheson, Victor - Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the … - 2004
-term losses in attendance but have not resulted in any long-term effects on attendance. While total attendance at MLB games … baseball attendance has dropped significantly since the 1994/95 strike. …
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Were Major League Baseball Doubleheaders a Mistake?
Layson, Stephen; Rhodes, M. Taylor - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2011
estimate the effects of doubleheaders on attendance. The annual data over various sub-samples from 1920-2009 indicate that the … number of doubleheaders have either a negative or an insignificant effect on annual attendance. The daily data from 1938 …-2009 show that doubleheaders have a very positive effect on attendance on the day of the doubleheaders but that this is …
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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,...
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Join the Club - On the Attractiveness of Golf Club Membership
Lundberg, Johan; Lundberg, Sofia - 2004
This paper concerns the attractiveness for member ship in Swedish golf clubs. A representative voter model is derived and the attractiveness for member ship in golf clubs estimated using a unique data set on qualities of the golf course, the quality of neighboring courses and characteristics...
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Youth sports and the accumulation of human capital
Leeds, Michael A. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
In response to declining budgets, many school districts in the US have reduced funding for sports. In Europe, parents may respond to difficult economic times by spending less on sports clubs for their children. Such cuts are unwise if participating in sports is an investment good as well as a...
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The penalty-duel and institutional design: is there a Neeskens-effect?
Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - 2008
No abstract available
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Consumer perceptions matter: A case study of an anomaly in English football
Reade, J. James; van Ours, Jan C. - 2024
introduction. We find that the new point system did not affect match outcomes but it did influence match attendance negatively. We …
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No Better Moment to Score a Goal than Just Before Half Time? A Soccer Myth Statistically Tested
Baert, Stijn; Amez, Simon - 2016
We test the soccer myth suggesting that a particularly good moment to score a goal is just before half time. To this end, rich data on 1,179 games played in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League are analysed. In contrast to the myth, we find that, conditional on the goal difference...
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Sports and Regional Growth in Sweden - Is a successful professional sports team good for regional economic growth?
Värja, Emelie - 2014
This study investigates whether net inbound migration and per capita income growth of a municipality is affected when a local sports team enters or exits the premium national leagues in ice hockey or soccer in Sweden. Local governments frequently support a local professional team through direct...
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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...
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