Sports teams frequently fire and hire managers when they experience losing. However, determining managerial responsibility for player performance is difficult to measure. This study examines how major-league baseball players perform under different managers and estimates that managers have...

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...

Transfers are big business in association football. This paper develops a generalized additive mixed model that aids managers in predicting how a football player is expected to perform in a new team. It does so by using event-level data from the Spanish and the Colombian football leagues. Using...

Domestic violence generates long-term effects on offenders, victims, and other household members. Insight into triggers of family violence can inform policy and improve services aimed at reducing abusive behavior. We investigate potential domestic violence triggers by analyzing unexpected losses...

Employment shocks can produce persistent earnings losses, yet it is unclear whether these losses result from changes in productivity or labor market frictions. I estimate the long-run effects of a change in job quality on earnings and productivity by exploiting discontinuities in the rules...

This paper extends and corrects previous methodology used to investigate the potential for point shaving in NCAA men's college basketball. We incorporate information from additional betting markets, including second-half betting markets, which allows us to dramatically reduce the unexpected...

Some professional athletes still face monoposony power in labor markets, underscoring the importance of estimating players' marginal revenue product (MRP) to assess its effects. We introduce two new empirical approaches, spline revenue functions and fixed-effects stochastic production functions,...

For any organisation, internal conflict may arise due to the priorities and perspectives of different business functions. In professional sport, this conflict can led to an 'imposition of the core sporting product', if revenue-maximising initiatives of the marketing department have negative...

This paper provides an empirical investigation of severe misconducts in contests based on data from European football championships. We extend previous studies by differentiating between two types of misconducts both resulting in a yellow card, namely dissents with the referee and other...

Soccer player registrations are accounted for as intangible assets on the balance sheets of clubs. This paper thoroughly explores the definition of intangible assets provided by the International Financial Reporting Standards and the International Financial Reporting Framework and raises doubts...