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Prices, Point Spreads and Profits: Evidence from the National Football League

Humphreys, Brad - Department of Economics, University of Alberta - 2010

Previous research on point spread betting assumed that bookmakers attract an equal volume of bets on either side of games in order to maximize profits. This paper examines the viability of this assumption from a theoretical and empirical perspective. The model of bookmaker behavior developed...

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Promotion Mechanisms on the PGA TOUR

Rhoads, Thomas A. - In: Southern Economic Journal 77 (2010) 1, pp. 126-137

The dynamics of screening talent and promoting an athlete to a major team sports league is not entirely different from … that of a major individual sports league. While talent is assessed through mechanisms offering more or less observations …, coaching decisions and team quality that can affect performance in team sports are generally not present in individual sports …

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The Social Dimensions of Idea Work in Haute Cuisine: A Bourdieusian Perspective

Bouty, Isabelle; Gomez, Marie-Léandre - ESSEC Business School - 2009

This paper analyzes idea work in haute cuisine through three case studies. Mobilizing Bourdieu’s praxeology, we consider idea work as a practice, an activity that takes sense and meaning in the social world. Thus, idea work reflects the position of the agent in the field and the struggles to...

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Unpacking Knowing Integration: A Practice-based Study in Haute Cuisine

Bouty, Isabelle; Gomez, Marie-Léandre - ESSEC Business School - 2009

Within a practice-based approach of organizations, we explore the knowing integration phenomena at the roots of competitive advantage. While former knowing integration studies have pointed to the importance of boundary objects across occupational communities, knowing integration inside a...

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Predicting the Medal Wins by Country at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games: An Econometrics Approach

Pfau, Wade Donald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Demographic and economic characteristics have been shown to provide important predictive power for determining a country’s success in the Olympic Games. This paper extends such research, providing a set of predictions for the gold medals and total medals each country will win at the 2006...

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High School Grades and University Performance: A Case Study

Cyrenne, Philippe; Chan, Alan - Department of Economics, University of Winnipeg - 2010

A critical issue facing a number of colleges and universities is how to allocate first year places to incoming students. The decision to admit students if often based on a number of factors, but a key statistic is a student's high school grades. This paper reports on a case study of the...

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Theoretische Analyse der Strategienwahl unter der Zwei- und Drei-Punkte-Regel im Fußball

Geyer, Hannah - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2008

The paper theoretically analyses the effect of the introduction of the three-point-rule on the strategies in a soccer match. Therefore the expectation values for the goal difference at the end of the game under different strategies both for matches between equally strong teams and (more...

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Are three points for a win really better than two? Theoretical and empirical evidence for German soccer

Dilger, Alexander; Geyer, Hannah - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2008

The effects of the three-point rule in first league German soccer are tested empirically and compared to games from the German cup-competition. The inclusion of cup games ensures that changes in league games can be attributed to the three-point rule. As a result of their relative devaluation,...

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THE BIVARIATE ANALYSIS BETWEEN THE VARIABLES THAT DEFINE THE INVESTIGATED TOURIST POPULATION IN THE CENTER DEVELOPMENT REGION AND THE OTHER IMPORTANT TOURIST VARIABLES

Erika, Assist. Ph.D Kulcsár - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2010) 14, pp. 110-117

In the marketing research the instances when we need to examine the relationship between two variables are frequent. Knowing the relationship between the two variables involves the use of tests that can be parametric and nonparametric. This paper includes the non-parametric tests used in the...

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CONCEPTUAL CLARIFICATIONS REGARDING YOUTH TRAVEL

Olimpia, Lect. Ph.D Student Moisa Claudia - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2010) 14S, pp. 98-106

Currently, there is no clear definition for the youth travel concept. This concept emerged much latter than the first forms of manifestation of tourism for young people, namely the beginning of the ’90s when the first studies regarding youth travel were also conducted. No doubt, the concept of...

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