Franck, Egon; Nüesch, Stephan - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2007
We show that both talent and popularity significantly contribute to stars’ market values in German soccer. The talent-versus-popularity … empirically face the difficulty of accurately identifying talent. In professional sports, rank-order tournaments help in … ascertaining talent. Analyzing a team production setting, we make use of a large number of performance indicators to estimate a …