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The feel-good effect at mega sport events: recommendations for public and private administration informed by the experience of the FIFA World Cup 2006
Maennig, Wolfgang - 2008
One of the most important social effects of the 2006 football World Cup was the feel-good effect. The present contribution is one of the first to deal with the development of a general theory for the management of feel-good effects and systematically analyses the influencing factors taking the...
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Join the Club - On the Attractiveness of Golf Club Membership
Lundberg, Johan; Lundberg, Sofia - 2004
substitute to publicly financed goods. Keywords: spatial econometrics, sports, utility maximization JEL classification: D71, L83 …
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The penalty-duel and institutional design: is there a Neeskens-effect?
Leininger, Wolfgang; Ockenfels, Axel - 2008
No abstract available
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Youth sports and the accumulation of human capital
Leeds, Michael A. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
In response to declining budgets, many school districts in the US have reduced funding for sports. In Europe, parents … may respond to difficult economic times by spending less on sports clubs for their children. Such cuts are unwise if … participating in sports is an investment good as well as a consumption good and adds to students' human capital. The value of sports …
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No Better Moment to Score a Goal than Just Before Half Time? A Soccer Myth Statistically Tested
Baert, Stijn; Amez, Simon - 2016
We test the soccer myth suggesting that a particularly good moment to score a goal is just before half time. To this end, rich data on 1,179 games played in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League are analysed. In contrast to the myth, we find that, conditional on the goal difference...
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Game of Organizing International Cricket: Co-Existence of Country-Line and Club-Line Games
Das, Satya Prasanna - 2008
The paper presents an economic model of interaction between cricket boards, players and international club-line games sponsors like ICL or IPL. It attempts to capture the inherent conflict between such games and country-line games traditionally organized by cricket boards. It identifies the...
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Game of Organizing International Cricket: Co-Existence of Country-Line and Club-Line Games
Das, Satya Prasanna - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-32, pp. 1-29
The paper presents an economic model of interaction between cricket boards, players and international club-line games sponsors like ICL or IPL. It attempts to capture the inherent conflict between such games and country-line games traditionally organized by cricket boards. It identifies the...
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Performance and Risk Taking under Threat of Elimination
Adams, Nathan R.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2017
We revisit the incentive effects of elimination tournaments with a fresh approach to identification, the results of which strongly support that performance improves under the threat of elimination and does so, but only in part, due to increases in risk taking. Where we can separately identify...
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Sports Retailinf in India: Opportunities, Constraints and Way Forward
Mukherjee, Arpita - 2010
Sports retail is a small but fast growing segment of modern retail in India. Recently, the country has been hosting … many international sports and this has given a boost to this sector. Many foreign and domestic corporate retailers have … entered sports retail. Sports goods manufacturing is a focus area in the Foreign Trade Policy (2009-2014) and the government …
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Sports at the vanguard of labor market policy
Papps, Kerry L. - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)
workers’ productivity levels. Professional sports offer a potential solution, since the performance of individual sportspeople …
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