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What Is Right With Scully Estimates of a Player’s Marginal Revenue Product
Bradbury, John Charles - In: Journal of Sports Economics 14 (2013) 1, pp. 87-96
Krautmann contends that Scully’s method for estimating the marginal revenue products of baseball players using team …
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The Invariance Proposition in Baseball: New Evidence
Rockerbie, Duane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper considers the changes in revenue sharing that occurred prior to the 2007 season and its effects on parity via its effects on marginal revenues. Based on the results from an empirical specification for team revenue, we find evidence that the reduction in revenue sharing increased...
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Further Examination of Potential Discrimination Among MLB Umpires
Tainsky, Scott; Mills, Brian; Winfree, Jason A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We address potential racial bias by Major League Baseball umpires with respect to ball-strike calls. We offer a number …
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Take Me Out to the
Leeds, Michael A.; Sakata, Sumi - In: Journal of Sports Economics 13 (2012) 1, pp. 34-52
The authors use data that are collected from the 2007 season to study attendance at Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB …) games. Like Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, Japanese teams set price in the inelastic portion of the demand curve, but …
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Do Relief Pitching and Remaining Games Create Moral Hazard Problems in Major League Baseball?
Baldini, Kevin; Gillis, Mark T.; Ryan, Matt E. - In: Journal of Sports Economics 12 (2011) 6, pp. 647-659
Previous research neglects to consider additional sources of moral hazard in baseball beyond the designated hitter (DH …
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Is the small-ball strategy effective in winning games? A stochastic frontier production approach
Lee, Young - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 35 (2011) 1, pp. 51-59
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An inspection game model of the stolen base in baseball: A theory of theft
Turocy, Theodore L. - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2012
This paper models the stolen base play in baseball as a simple inspection game. The model offers equilibrium …. Using an extensive play-by-play dataset from 37 Major League Baseball seasons, qualitative and quantitative support is found …
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An inspection game model of the stolen base in baseball: A theory of theft
Turocy, Theodore L. - School of Economics, University of East Anglia - 2012
This paper models the stolen base play in baseball as a simple inspection game. The model offers equilibrium …. Using an extensive play-by-play dataset from 37 Major League Baseball seasons, qualitative and quantitative support is found …
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Is America’s National Pastime too time consuming?
Burger, John D.; Walters, Stephen J.K. - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 2, pp. 204-206
World Series telecasts are now an inferior good. Income and the time cost of consumption interact so that a ten percent income increase reduces viewership by 1.8 million households. Increased availability of substitutes reduces ratings but increased drama improves them.
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The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco: A Reply to J. C. Bradbury
Gould, Eric D.; Kaplan, Todd R. - In: Econ Journal Watch 10 (2013) 1, pp. 70-86
In this paper, we respond to J. C. Bradbury’s critique of our 2011 Labour Economics paper examining the peer effect of Jose Canseco. None of Bradbury’s criticisms have any merit, and many reveal a severe misunderstanding of basic econometrics. For example, Bradbury accuses us of not deleting...
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