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Four cases in sports competition policy: baseball, judo, football, and motor racing

Budzinski, Oliver - 2017

Practices and conducts in professional and even amateur sports can be subject to competition laws as soon as commercial activities are involved. From an economic perspective, this implies that both directly commercial activities like the sale of broadcasting/media rights and indirectly...

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Home advantage in European international soccer : which dimension of distance matters?

Damme, Nils van; Baert, Stijn - 2019

We investigate whether the home advantage in soccer differs by various dimensions of distance between the (regions of …

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Player dismissal and full time results in the UEFA Champions League and Europa League

De Meyere, Arne; Vanruymbeke, Ward; Baert, Stijn - 2018

international club soccer. To this end, we analyse data of more than 2,000 recent games in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa …

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The older the wiser? : determinants of misbehaviour in team contests

Lackner, Mario; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2022

We use data from top-level soccer to examine determinants of individual misbehaviour in team contests. Our estimates …

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Demand for TV broadcasts of UEFA Champions League games in Danish television - the impact of uncertainty of outcome, stardom, and local heroes

Budzinski, Oliver; Feddersen, Arne; Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, … - 2022

There are noticeable conceptual differences between competing concepts for organizing the highest level of European Football. One major conceptual controversy is concerned with the question whether fans have a stronger preference for (more) games between the top teams over a broad participation...

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Previsão da eficácia ofensiva do futebol profissional: Um caso Português

Caiado, Jorge; Vieira, Aníbal; Bonito, Ana; Reis, Carlos; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

, including the sportive phenomenon of the soccer. The experience has shown that the extrapolative or not casual models … accuracy than causal or multivariate models. In this paper, we model and forecast the offensive effectiveness of the soccer … team Sport Lisbon and Benfica, in Portuguese soccer league, by using deterministic methods (linear trend, moving average …

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The Napoleon complex revisited : new evidence from professional soccer

Callegaro, Giulio; Lackner, Mario; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2024

We analyse evaluation biases caused by physical attributes. Using data from German elite soccer, we find that referees …

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Fertility transitions along the extensive and intensive margins

Aaronson, Daniel; Lange, Fabian; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2011

This paper examines the fertility transition through a new lens: the extensive margin. Parents with high levels of children might substitute quality for quantity as the constraints on quality relax or those on quantity tighten. However, along the extensive margin, the quantity-quality trade-off...

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Aid withdrawal as punishment for defaulting sovereigns? An empirical analysis

Brandt, Jana; Jorra, Markus - 2012

This paper empirically investigates whether donor countries punish sovereign defaults by reducing foreign aid ows. Our findings reject the hypothesis formulated in the theoretical literature that a default leads to a loss of foreign aid for the defaulting country. Creditor countries directly...

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Does Worksharing Work? Some Empirical Evidence from the IAB Panel

Simmons, R.; Schank, Thorsten; Andrews, Martyn J. - 2004

Recent policy debate in Europe suggests that a shorter workweek will lead to more jobs (worksharing). We derive and estimate a model where the firm employs two types of worker, some working overtime, the rest standard hours. Worksharing is not always a prediction of the theory. Using German...

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