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This paper examines college football point spreads. We find that the betting spread is a good predictor of outcome for … college football games during the regular season, but not for bowl games. Our sample of betting line spreads cluster around 3 …
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Using the case of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, this study is the first to test the employment effects of a mega-sporting event on the basis of data that are both regional and sectoral. It is also the first study of sporting events to use a non-parametric test method. Earlier studies on the World Cup...
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This paper examines the effect of superstars on external stakeholders' organizational identification through the lens of sport. Drawing on social identity theory and the concept of organizational identification, as well as on role model theories and superstar economics, we develop several...
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in European professional football. In order to find possible reasons for the gap between the UOH and (the lack of) its … three European professional football leagues. The results indicate that a tipping point/threshold value of CB exists and …
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We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...
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This study finds that the extremeness aversion bias documented in decision making studies exists in the sports betting market in which real money is at stake. The magnitude of the bias is large that a naive betting strategy utilizing this bias, since the betting market's inception in 2008...
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This paper analyses the 53 managerial sackings and resignations from 16 stock exchange listed English football clubs …
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This paper assesses the effects of domestic football teams' performances against foreign rivals on stock market returns … propositions that the results of football teams in international cups affect (i) stock market returns and (ii) the risk …-return relationship. Evidence from Spain and the UK (countries considered football powerhouses) suggest that losses are associated with …
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transparency and financial conditions of football clubs participating at the European cups. The paper focuses on the specifics of … Czech professional football clubs. The research is carried out in two ways. Firstly, the compliance with information duties … football clubs submit their financial statements to the Business Register with a delay or they do not submit the statements at …
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business. This paper tests popular assumptions about sports using evidence from the college football programs of the …
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