Coaches on Fire or Firing the Coach? Evidence of the Impact of Coach Changes on Team Performance from Italian Serie A

In this paper, football data from the 2007/2008 to 2016/2017 seasons of the Italian Serie A were used to identify the effects of replacing a coach mid-season due to poor team performance. We used an instrumental variable approach to correlate coach turnover within a season with player productivity and found a very low positive impact of the coach change in the short term but a significant negative impact in the long term. Our findings are also relevant to the literature on management replacement in small-size firms.

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Year of publication:	2019
Authors:	Argentieri, Alessandro ; Canova, Luciano ; Manera, Matteo
Publisher:	Milano : Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
Subject:	Italian Football Data \| Coach Changes \| Team Performance \| Models for Panel Data \| Instrumental Variables

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Series:	Working Paper ; 023.2019
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	1677170328 [GVK] hdl:10419/211182 [Handle] RePEc:fem:femwpa:2019.23 [RePEc]
Classification:	C23 - Models with Panel Data ; c36 ; M51 - Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions (hiring, firing, turnover, part-time, temporary workers, seniority issues) ; z22
Source:	EconStor

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