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On the effect of taxation in the online sports betting market

Vidal-Puga, Juan J. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 8 (2017) 2, pp. 145-175

We analyze the effect of taxation in the online sport betting market. A relevant characteristic of this market is its negligible marginal cost on bet volume. Taxation can be on gross profit (Gross Profit Tax) or on volume (General Betting Duty). We model the two most popular online sport betting...

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The dark side of sport : managerial bullying and harassment challenges in different types of sports

Vveinhardt, Jolita; Fominiene, Vilija Bite; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 21 (2020) 6, pp. 1525-1542

individual, combat and team sports, highlighting measures/actions used to manage these phenomena. Survey research uses … quantitative research strategy. The study involved 1440 organized sports athletes representing all sports types. The prevalence of … bullying actions with regard to separate type of sports was identified: in individual sports (9.8%), in combat sports (8 …

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Local development and competitive soccer teams location. The Portuguese case

Mourão, Paulo - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2008) 12, pp. 135-143

This work is focused on testing the following hypothesis: “The competitivenessof a Portuguese professional soccer team is influenced by the economicdevelopment level of the surrounding region.” Using a rational choice model andworking with binary time-series cross-sectional data, this work...

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On the tractability of the piecewise-linear approximation for general discrete-choice network revenue management

Kunnumkal, Sumit; Talluri, Kalyan - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2014

The choice network revenue management (RM) model incorporates customer purchase behavior as customers purchasing products with certain probabilities that are a function of the offered assortment of products, and is the appropriate model for airline and hotel network revenue management, dynamic...

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On the Tractability of the Piecewiselinear Approximation for General Discrete-Choice Network Revenue Management

Kunnumkal, Sumit; Talluri, Kalyan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

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A Theoretical Analysis of the Influence of Money Injections on Risk Taking in Football Clubs

Franck, Egon; Lang, Markus - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2013

Third party money injections of benefactors (sugar daddies) function as a bailout mechanism for otherwise insolvent football clubs. The successful implementation of the new UEFA "financial fair play" regulations will abrogate this bailout mechanism. We develop a theoretical model of a...

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Adolescent Steroid Use and Intercollegiate Athletic Incentives

Humphreys, Brad R.; Ruseski, Jane - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2014

We examine the relationship between college athletic scholarships and adolescent use of performance enhancing drugs. Annually, 4.5 million male high school athletes compete for about 132,000 athletic scholarships o_ered by NCAA Division I and II universities. Estimates from a probit model of...

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An Analysis of the Last Hour of Betting in the NFL

Paul, Rodney J.; Weinbach, Andrew P. - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 6 (2011) 4, pp. 307-316

The last hour of betting for the wagering market in the National Football League (NFL) was examined. In a sample of offshore sportsbooks, nearly a quarter of all bets on NFL games occured in the last hour before kickoff. Bets were shown not to be balanced between each side of the betting...

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What Goes into a Medal: Women's Inclusion and Success at the Olympic Games

Noland, Marcus; Stahler, Kevin - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2014

This paper examines determinants of women's participation and performance in the Olympics. Female inclusion and success are not merely functions of size, wealth, and host advantage, but a more complex process involving the socioeconomic status of women and, more weakly, broad societal attitudes...

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Gamblers' Rationality in Parimutuel Soccer Betting

Hauser, Ursula; Koenig, Ulrich; Krylova, Elizaveta - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2000

A model for strategic behaviour in parimutuel gambles with unequal winning-probabilities is developed and applied to gambles based on soccer results. Assuming that the bookmakers' quotas reflect the true probability of each possible result of a soccer game, we are able to derive a formula for...

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