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This paper studies how social pressure affects the behavior of soccer referees. We make use of an attractive source of exogenous variation in the number of spectators at matches. Due to recent hooligan violence, the Italian government has implemented a regulation that forces some soccer teams to...
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empirically theories of incentives. In this paper the behaviour of the referees in the Italian soccer (football) league ("Serie A …
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Many fouls committed in football (called soccer in some countries) are ambiguous, and there is no objective way of …
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This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. Unlike previous studies, we can estimate the determinants of match rigging and use this information in...
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