Heckelman, Jac C.; Yates, Andrew J. - In: Economic Inquiry 41 (2003) 4, pp. 705-712
We apply the economic theory of crime to the National Hockey League. We analyze a natural experiment in which games during the 1999--2000 season had either one or two referees. We determine the effect of the number of referees on both the number of penalties called and the number of rules...
