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The NBA's maximum player salary and the distribution of player rents
Hastings, Kelly M.; Stephenson, Frank - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 3 (2015) 2, pp. 75-83
The NBA's 1999 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) included provisions capping individual player pay in addition to … team payrolls. This study examines the effect the NBA's maximum player salary on player rents by comparing player pay from …
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The NBA’s Maximum Player Salary and the Distribution of Player Rents
Hastings, Kelly M.; Stephenson, Frank - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 3 (2015) 2, pp. 75-83
The NBA’s 1999 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) included provisions capping individual player pay in addition to … team payrolls. This study examines the effect the NBA’s maximum player salary on player rents by comparing player pay from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211010
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Inside the NBA Bubble: How Black Players Performed Better without Fans
Caselli, Mauro; Falco, Paolo; Somekh, Babak - 2022
In the NBA, predominantly Black players play in front of predominantly non-Black fans. Using the 'NBA bubble', a … causes significant economic damage to the NBA by lowering the quality of the game. …
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Inside the NBA bubble : how blackplayers performed better without fans
Caselli, Mauro; Falco, Paolo; Somekh, Babak - 2022
In the NBA, predominantly Black players play in front of predominantly non-Black fans. Using the 'NBA bubble', a …' behavior causes significant economic damage to the NBA by lowering the quality of the game. …
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The mortality crisis in transition economies
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Large and sudden economic and political changes, even if potentially positive, often entail enormous social and health costs. Such transitory costs are generally underestimated or neglected by incumbent governments. The mortality crisis experienced by the former communist countries of...
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Physical constitution matters for athletic performance and salary of NBA players
Bakkenbüll, Linn-Brit - 2017
professional basketball league, the National Basketball Association (NBA). This study examines whether there is a relationship … between the physical constitution of professional basketball players and their athletic performance in the 2015/16 NBA season … characteristics on salary for NBA players. Taller players have a higher salary in the 2015/16 NBA season. …
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Sind Wettbewerbe im Profisport Rattenrennen?
Budzinski, Oliver - 2017
Eine Reihe von Autoren - vor allem im deutschsprachigen - Raum begründet die Notwendigkeit regulatorischer Eingriffe in Profisportmärkte damit, dass der Wettbewerb auf diesen Märkten systematisch versage. Als wesentliche Ursache für Wettbewerbsprobleme innerhalb dieser Ligen oder...
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Mind the absent gap: Gender-specific competitiveness in non-professional sports
Pikos, Anna Katharina; Straub, Alexander - 2019
There is wide evidence for gender differences in competitiveness and performance under pressure from experimental economics and single-sex professional sports. We analyze these differences in a sport with direct gender competition. Our unique data consists of over 500,000 observations from...
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The inefficient advantage of experience in the market for football managers
Peeters, Thomas; Szymanski, Stefan; Terviö, Marko - 2017
We study hiring in a labor market where worker ability can only be observed on-the-job, but quickly becomes public information after labor market entry. We show that firms in these markets have a socially inefficient incentive to hire low talented, experienced workers instead of more promising...
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Development of loan players in professional football
Günter, Niklas; Vischer, Lars - 2024
This study analyses the development of loan players in the German Bundesliga from 2010/2011 to 2021/2022, motivated by the increasing importance of player loans in professional football and upcoming FIFA rule changes to reduce loans. The study analyses 378 loan transfers and compares them with...
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