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The rainmaker?! The impact of investors on transfer fees in the English Premier League

Richau, Lukas; Follert, Florian; Frenger, Monika; … - 2021

Transfer fees in European football have experienced a rapid increase in the past years. Simultaneously, an increasing number of domestic and recently foreign investors - who are assumed to further increase team spending in European football - have entered the football market by becoming club...

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Genetic Diversity and Performance: Evidence from Fooball Data

Beine, Michel; Peracchi, Silvia; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021

The theoretical impact of genetic diversity is ambiguous since it leads to costs and benefits at the collective level. In this paper, we assess empirically the connection between genetic diversity and the performance of sport teams. Focusing on football (soccer), we built a novel dataset of...

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The strongest link in a weak team? Performance of players with and without outside options in relegated football clubs

Müller, Michael - 2016

In this study the performance of players in relegated German football clubs is analysed, in particular the change in their contribution to team production. The players in the data sample differ regarding their outside options. Different career opportunities of players may have two effects when...

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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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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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State politics and gender diversity in sport governance

Lesch, Lara; Kerwin, Shannon; Wicker, Pamela - In: Economics of Governance 23 (2022) 3, pp. 385-409

This study investigates the relationship between state politics and sport governance based on an institutional framework and the concept of spillover effects. Specifically, it examines whether spillover effects occur from state parliament and government composition to board gender diversity...

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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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Injury Risk, Concussions, Race, and Pay in the NFL

Keefer, Quinn; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2023

We make two main contributions to the literature on work-related injury risk and economic outcomes in the context of American professional football. One is to examine an increasingly important specific injury, concussions, and compare its subsequent economic effects to those of other types of...

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Customer Discrimination and Ethnic Team Composition

Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik; Wolters, Leonie - 2023

This paper examines the relationship between customer preferences and ethnic team composition in German professional soccer. Ethnic team composition is measured using facial recognition techniques, player names, and nationality. The study uses a difference-in-differences approach to show that...

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