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The educated underdog becomes the ultimate superstar

Hjertstrand, Per; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2017

the best football player in the world). We develop a multi-period skill formation model with selection into elite … levels as adults (educated underdogs). We use detailed data on the performance of elite Swedish football players to …

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The public choice of public stadium financing : evidence from San Diego referenda

Johnson, Candon; Hall, Joshua C. - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 1/22, pp. 1-9

Local politicians and team owners frequently argue that the public financing of stadiums is important for local economic development. The sports economics literature, however, has largely found that new professional sport facilities do not generate any new net economic activity. We provide...

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Effects of the three-point rule in German amateur football

Dilger, Alexander; Froböse, Gerrit - 2018

Possible effects of the introduction of the three-point rule in 1995 are tested by using data from amateur football …

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How outcome uncertainty, loss aversion and team quality affect stadium attendance in Dutch professional football

Besters, Lucas; Ours, Jan C. van; Tuijl, Martin A. van - 2018

We investigate stadium attendance in the highest level of Dutch professional football for the seasons 2000/01 - 2015 …/16 focusing on outcome uncertainty, loss aversion and team quality. We find that for individual football matches, attendance is … impact of the introduction of a unique and large end-of-season play-off scheme for the qualification for European football. …

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Market-internal financial regulation in sports as an anticompetitive institution

Budzinski, Oliver - 2017

Financial regulation in sports is usually discussed in the context of representing an instrument against "financial doping". Notwithstanding the merits of this discussion, this paper takes the opposite perspective and analyses how market-internal financial regulation itself may anticompetitively...

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Football spectator no-show behavior in Switzerland : empirical evidence from season ticket holder behavior

Schreyer, Dominik; Torgler, Benno - 2021 - This version: February 10, 2021

For football executives, understanding the determinants of spectator no-show behavior better is of utmost importance …

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Financial regulation in sport championships as an anticompetitive institution

Budzinski, Oliver - 2024

Financial regulation in sports is usually discussed in the context of representing an instrument against “financial doping”. Notwithstanding the merits of this discussion, this paper takes the opposite perspective and analyses how market-internal financial regulation itself may...

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Does losing lead to winning? : an empirical analysis for four different sports

Klein Teeselink, Bouke; Assem, Martijn J. van den; … - 2020

collegiate basketball. We extend their analysis to large samples of Australian football, American football and rugby matches, but …

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No home bias in ghost games

Dilger, Alexander; Vischer, Lars - 2020

Because of the COVID-19-pandemic the men's first German football league (Bundesliga) had to finish the season 2019 …

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Seeding the UEFA Champions League Participants : Evaluation of the Reform

Dagaev, Dmitry - 2016

We evaluate the sporting effects of the seeding system reform in the major football club tournament -- the Champions … League -- organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). In the UEFA Champions League, before the 2015 …

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