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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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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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Measuring customer discrimination : evidence from the professional cricket league in India

Sur, Pramod Kumar; Sasaki, Masaru - 2018

Research in the field of customer discrimination has received relatively little attention even if the theory of discrimination suggests that customer discrimination may exist in the long run whereas employer and employee discrimination may not. This paper examines customer discrimination...

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Performance bonuses and effort : evidence from fight night awards in mixed martial arts

Gift, Paul - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 7 (2019) 1/13, pp. 1-11

This paper investigates the role of fight night bonus awards on fighter behavior in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and World Extreme Cage (WEC) fighting mixed martial arts (MMA) promotions. Behavior is analyzed using detailed fighter performance statistics, exploiting variation in...

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Country of origin effects on the average annual values of NHL player contracts

Fenn, Aju J.; Gerdes, Lucas; Rothstein, Samuel - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 7 (2019) 2/24, pp. 1-11

Using data from 2005 to 2016, this paper examines if players in the National Hockey League (NHL) are being paid a positive differential for their services due to the competition from the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). In order to control for performance, we...

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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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Do High Wage Footballers Play for High Wage Teams? The case of Major League Soccer

Scarfe, Rachel - 2019

Intuition and sports knowledge suggest the most talented professional footballers play for the best teams, i.e. positive assortative matching based on productivity. We consider Major League Soccer between 2007 and 2017. We estimate a wage equation, finding that player and team fixed wage...

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The College Admissions Contribution to the Labor Market Beauty Premium

Ong, David - 2020

Beautiful people earn more. Surprisingly, this premium is larger for men than for women and is independent of the degree of customer contact. Overlooked is the possibility that beauty can influence college admissions. We explore this academic contributor to the labor market beauty earnings...

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Coaches on Fire or Firing the Coach? Evidence of the Impact of Coach Changes on Team Performance from Italian Serie A

Argentieri, Alessandro - 2020

In this paper, football data from the 2007/2008 to 2016/2017 seasons of the Italian Serie A were used to identify the effects of replacing a coach mid-season due to poor team performance. We used an instrumental variable approach to correlate coach turnover within a season with player...

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