Research question: According to behavioral economics, coaches may unconsciously bias from rational behavior, which in turn affects team performance. We analyze the influence of a particular coach behavioral bias, overconfidence, on a soccer team performance.Research methods: We use a sample of...

This study estimates an attendance demand model in a reduced form, with uncertainty as one of the determinants of demand, to test the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis (UOH), using data from the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL). These data fit our requirements for two reasons. First, there...

In this study, we estimate an attendance demand model in a reduced form, with an uncertainty as one of the determinants of demand, to test the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis (UOH). Data from the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL) are used here. These data fit our requirements for two...

Video games are treated as an innovation in leisure activity that makes being unemployed more attractive than before. In this study we develop a theoretical model and empirically test whether the popularity of video games influences the total and youth unemployment. Our results of regression...

Competitive computer gaming, known as eSports, has become popular, resulting in an increase in the number of gamers and prize earnings. Unlike traditional sports, eSports does not depend on the physical abilities of participants and participation costs are low. Our goal is to test whether...

This paper investigates how soccer sponsorship influences the financial performance of sponsors. We use an instrumental variable regression framework combined with a fixed effects model to avoid the possible endogeneity raised by omitted variables and reverse causality. The number of tweets...

This is the first paper to explore which characteristics of Russian fund managers are connected with a higher abnormal return (measured by Jensen's alpha) and risk (beta) for mutual funds. While only some fund managers publish biographic sketches we use the Heckman procedure to control for...

This study tests the implications of tournament theory using data on eSports (video game) competitions. We incorporate team production with the theory of rank order elimination tournaments since in our analysis, competitors in an elimination tournament are groups rather than individuals. In this...

Our work is focused on Russian mutual funds managers' skills versus luck testing. Using the bootstrap procedure of Kosowski et al. (2007) we test Jensen's alpha significance for each fund. We found that only 5% of equity mutual funds do have skills. These results for the emerging Russian market...

We analyse Esport data of professional CS:GO teams to shed light on the question of whether diverse teams survive longer. We also control for the prize money as a time dependent covariate. Another focus is on the liability of newness hypothesis.