In this paper sport data are used to study the effects of manager replacement on firm performance. Using match results … performance. From our preliminary estimates, including year and team fixed effects, it emerges that changing the coach produces a … positive effect on a number of measures of team performance. However, this effect turns out to be statistically insignificant …

of assortative matching. We find that performance is positively correlated with player's career. There is a matching … between good teams and good players and vice versa. Players with better performance have higher probabilities of being … promoted and players with worse performance have higher probabilities of being demoted. Older players and players that have …