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Performance bonuses and effort: Evidence from fight night awards in mixed martial arts

Gift, Paul - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-11

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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Country of origin effects on the average annual values of NHL player contracts

Fenn, Aju J.; Gerdes, Lucas; Rothstein, Samuel - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 7 (2019) 2, pp. 1-11

Using data from 2005 to 2016, this paper examines if players in the National Hockey League (NHL) are being paid a positive differential for their services due to the competition from the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). In order to control for performance, we...

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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 owners. In light of these developments, fears associated with an …

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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

Basketball is one of the most practised sports in the world, especially in America. America has the most famous professional basketball league, the National Basketball Association (NBA). This study examines whether there is a relationship between the physical constitution of professional...

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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

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 football injuries. Our other contribution is to study the role of race in … demographics, playing time, and performance, we find that whether a player continues to play NFL football from year to year is …

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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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The superstar effect in Tennis: A within-match analysis

Creutzburg, Carsten - 2024

This study is the first to investigate the superstar effect on professional men's tennis players' situational performance, employing novel serve and return ratings. We innovate by examining the impact of superstars on the performance of both higher-ranked (HR) and lower-ranked (LR) players. We...

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