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All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … more likely to make it into the NHL, but display significantly lower performance across all birth cohorts than later … calendar births. In short, those in the top echelon of NHL achievement are drawn from fatter cohorts and later relative age …

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The Impact of International Competitions on Competitive Balance in Domestic Leagues: The Case of the National Hockey League’s Participation in the Winter Olympics

Longley, Neil - In: International Journal of Sport Finance 7 (2012) 3, pp. 249-261

This paper analyzes the impact of the NHL’s participation in the Winter Olympics on competitive balance outcomes within … the NHL. It finds that the post-Olympic performance of NHL teams is negatively related to the number of players that the …

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Reporting and measurement of the ice‐hockey contracts: Ideas for the true‐and‐fair view reporting of the NHL clubs

Strouhal, Jiri - In: Journal of International Trade Law and Policy 6 (2007) 1, pp. 57-72

adoption of the wage ceiling for the NHL players. The paper stresses the attention to the problem how to account and measure …

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Leading under pressure: evaluating the decision-making style of NHL coaches

Trottier, Kim - In: Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal 7 (2017) 1, pp. 97-112

elite NHL hockey coaches’ vis-à-vis amateur coaches and news reporters. Findings The data suggest elite decision makers have …, and among few papers that obtain insights from NHL coaches directly. The findings are likely to extend to corporate …

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Theorie und Praxis des Risikostrukturausgleichs / Risk Adjustment in Theory and Practice

Göpffarth, Dirk - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 227 (2007) 5-6, pp. 485-501

Summary This article reviews the basic theoretical model of risk adjustment (Glazer/McGuire 2000) with a special focus on a coherent presentation of the main results. With adverse selection a regulator pursuing efficiency and solidarity objectives will need a risk adjustment scheme acting on a...

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Unilateral vs. Bilateral Incentives: Evidence from the U.S. Pork Industry

Jang, Jongick; Miller, Douglas J.; Sykuta, Michael E.; … - 2009

The idea that individuals adapt their behaviors in response to changes in incentive systems is fundamental to most economic analysis. This paper incorporates the concept of price discovery costs into the incentive theory to offer a theoretical model and empirical evidence on thedifferential...

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Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa

Klasen, Stephan; Woolard, Ingrid - 2000

High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....

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Tournament fever and the perception of strategic uncertainty in performance contests

Uske, Tobias - 2008

As firms implement tournament bonus reward schemes, mainly the idea is to introduce competition amongst their agents in the order to promote their performance. Tournaments in which agents compete for a bonus by investing effort, are frequently applied, e.g., in development races, political...

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Labour supply and taxes

Meghir, Costas; Phillips, David - 2008

In this paper we provide an overview of the literature relating labour supply to taxes and welfare benefits with a focus on presenting the empirical consensus. We begin with a basic continuous hours model, where individuals have completely free choice over their hours of work. We then consider...

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The incentive effects of long-term contracts on performance - Evidence from a natural experiment in European Football

Gerfin, Michael; Feess, Eberhard; Mühlheusser, Gerd - 2010

The empirical analysis of the impact of long-term contracts on performance is challenging for two reasons: first, it is difficult to get adequate performance measures and second, potentially negative incentive effects of long-term contracts are countervailed by selection effects when workers...

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