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Performance Bonuses and Effort : Evidence from Fight Night Awards in Mixed Martial Arts

Gift, Paul - 2021

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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Special Ones? The Effect of Head Coaches on Football Team Performance

Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Farnell, Alex; … - 2021

One expects those who lead organisations to affect their performance. If not why would organisations spend so much time and money appointing and incentivising their leaders? Yet there is little evidence establishing a causal link between leaders and organisational performance. Using game-by-game...

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Setting Up of Employees Performance Management System at Vogue Commercial Ltd

Bharatiya, Pronod - 2020

Retaining talented employees is a challenging exercise especially when it comes to small and mid-size companies. The present case study is restricted to setting up a performance appraisal system for each and every department of a mid-size broking house of Delhi which has mostly a North India...

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The Unintended Consequences of Accounting-Based Regulation : Real Effects on European Football Players Transfer Market

Bonacchi, Massimiliano; Ciaponi, Fabio; Marra, Antonio; … - 2021

This study investigates the potential real effects of accounting-based, self-imposed, regulation in sports. We focus on Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulation that was enacted in European football in 2013. The regulation imposed on clubs participating in UEFA competitions, a strict earnings-based...

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Exploring the Market of Soccer Player Registrations : An Empirical Analysis of the Difference between Transfer Fees and Estimated Players’ Inherent Value

Campa, Domenico - 2021

This paper examines the determinants of the difference between soccer player registration transfer fees and the estimated inherent value of transferred players. The results show that this difference increases for players competing in the same league as that of the acquiring team, players...

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Non-compete Agreements, Wages and Efficiency : Theory and Evidence from Brazilian Football

Guimaraes, Bernardo; Pessoa, Joao Paulo; Ponczek, … - 2022

We propose a model to study non-compete agreements and evaluate their quantitative effects. We explore an exogenous policy change that removed non-compete clauses for Brazilian footballers, the Pele Act of 1998. The Act raised players' lifetime income but changed the wage profile in a...

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Revenue sharing and collusive behavior in the Major League Baseball posting system

Rockerbie, Duane - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 3/71, pp. 1-12

This paper uses auction theory to explain the unique design of the 1998-2013 posting system agreed to between Major League Baseball and the Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball League that allowed for the transfer of baseball players from Japan to the United States. It has some similarities and...

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Is work duration in France affected by football tournaments?

Duhautois, Richard; Drut, Bastien - In: Economics and Business Letters : EBL 6 (2017) 1, pp. 14-19

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Doping in teams : a simple decision theoretic model

Dilger, Alexander - 2017

A simple decision theoretic model shows the doping incentives for a member of a professional sports team. Depending on the detection probability and the punishment, a sportsman dopes not at all, at a medium or at the maximal level. The whole team has a higher incentive than an individual team...

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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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