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The penalty-duel and institutional design: is there a Neeskens-effect?
Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - 2008
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Tourism Persistence in the Southeastern European Countries : The Impact of COVID-19
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Imeri, Amir; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2022
This paper examines tourism persistence in a group of Southeastern European (SEE) countries (Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia) by applying fractional integration methods to monthly data on foreign tourist arrivals and overnight stays. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243164
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Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Encourage Gambling? Evidence from the Chinese Welfare Lottery Market
Xu, Can; Steiner, Andreas; de Haan, Jakob - 2023
This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on gambling activity in China. Based on a theoretical model, we hypothesize that EPU increases the demand for hope which raises the willingness to pay for lottery tickets, resulting in higher lottery sales. We estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262034
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Migrating football players, transfer fees and migration controls
Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2007
Since the famous Bosman ruling by the European Court of Justice in 1995 transfer fees for football players after moving to another club have become suspect as they are considered as an obstacle to the free movement of workers. However, in an unrestricted market free migration from football...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264134
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Après Nous le Déluge? Direct Democracy and Intergenerational Conflicts in Ageing Societies
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Maennig, Wolfgang; Steenbeck, Malte - 2016
To assess the likely effects of population ageing on the outcomes of direct democracy, we analyze the effect of age on voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case study of the Stuttgart 21 referendum on one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451394
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Lechner, Michael; Downward, Paul - 2013
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local … facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on … employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328809
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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias
Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - 2014
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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Labor Market Effects of Sports and Exercise: Evidence from Canadian Panel Data
Lechner, Michael; Sari, Nazmi - 2014
Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on …
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Explaining the favorite-longshot bias: Is it risk-love or misperceptions?
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning - longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet...
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Induced civic pride and integration
Süssmuth, Bernd; Heyne, Malte; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2009
This paper investigates whether a nation's contingent value of hosting a mega-event depends on past experience with implied public goods benefits for its residents. Applying data from an ex-ante and ex-post query based on contingent valuation methods, we use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural...
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