This paper provides an empirical investigation of severe misconducts in contests based on data from European football …

This paper analyses the 53 managerial sackings and resignations from 16 stock exchange listed English football clubs …

We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity … equal, managers who themselves played at a higher level raise the productivity of less-skilled teams by more than that of … subordinates the skills needed to succeed, since less skilled players have more to learn. We also find that managers with more …

We conduct an empirical analysis of a hand-collected sample of 2,376 turnovers of soccer managers in the four major …