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the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period …
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conditions are constant. However, previous empirical studies have found that Korean Professional Baseball League fans do not seem … the Korean baseball market (e.g., cultural changes in fan behavior, the introduction of international competition, etc … relatively weak compared with that for Major League Baseball. This structural change from the absence to the presence of such …
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This paper investigates the determinants of game-day attendance in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) from …
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In 2010, a plan to finance a new spring training stadium for the Cubs through a ticket surcharge on all games in the Cactus League was proposed. We find that the Cubs increase attendance when they are the away team by about 37%. Thus, the surcharge would be economically justified as long as the...
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dispersion that is “efficient†from wage dispersion around predicted wages. In baseball, it appears that the reason for …
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and after free agency. Previous attempts to test the theory's applicability to major league baseball were either …
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The effect of minority status on managerial survival in Major League Baseball is analyzed using survival time analysis …
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Past studies estimating the marginal revenue products of baseball players have assumed individual players' hitting … performances to be independent of teammate spillovers. However, the baseball community's widely held belief in â … externalities in baseball. Using play-by-play data the authors find evidence contrary to the protection hypothesis—the quality of …
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Economists have debated whether and why the designated hitter (DH) rule in North American Major League Baseball led to … an increase in hit batsmen. We use data from Japan's professional baseball leagues to reexamine this question. Our …
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This article investigates whether a greater supply of free-agent baseball players at a particular position has any …
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