Oberhofer, Harald; Philippovich, Tassilo; Winner, Hannes - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 31 (2010) 2, pp. 200-211
This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue that a team's performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue. To test this hypothesis empirically, we investigate...