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Production, consumption, and market supply of edible crickets : insights from East Africa

Musungu, Arnold L.; Muriithi, Beatrice Wambui; Ghemoh, … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-23

western Kenya, we find that supplying cricket production starter kits, granting access to credit facilities, encouraging … participation in farmer groups, and fostering partnerships can enhance the adoption of cricket farming. Moreover, we provide new … evidence that institutional training significantly increases cricket yields while embracing cricket consumption (i …

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Cardboard fans in the stands : COVID and compensation in Major League Baseball

Krautmann, Anthony Charles - In: International journal of empirical economics 3 (2024) 4, pp. 1-15

The pandemic's impact on Major League Baseball (MLB) was especially dire. In 2020, a single player testing positive was enough to cancel the entire game, with a few teams sidelined for weeks. This paper looks at all free-agent contracts signed during the 2017-2023 off-season signing periods....

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Revenue sharing and collusive behavior in the Major League Baseball posting system

Rockerbie, Duane - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 3/71, pp. 1-12

This paper uses auction theory to explain the unique design of the 1998-2013 posting system agreed to between Major League Baseball and the Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball League that allowed for the transfer of baseball players from Japan to the United States. It has some similarities and...

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Analysis of loyalty and future intentions of the users of the golf courses in Andalusia, Spain

Pradas García, Marcos; Maciá Andreu, María José; … - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 9 (2020) 2, pp. 181-199

Spain is a European leader as a golf tourism destination, and Andalusia is the region that receives the most tourism in this sector, boosting not only the golf industry but also the percentage of income overall. Thus, user loyalty and knowing the future intentions of users is a matter of vital...

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Consumption attachments of Brazilian fans of the National Football League : a netnography on Twitter interactions

Moura, Bruno Melo; Souza-Leão, André Luiz Maranhão de - In: Innovation & management review 17 (2020) 3, pp. 251-266

Purpose The National Football League (NFL), the most lucrative sports league in the world, has its second largest foreign audience in Brazil. Its Brazilian broadcasts stimulate the audience to extrapolate television reception and interact through a social media platform, seeking to integrate a...

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Neural networks and betting strategies for tennis

Candila, Vincenzo; Palazzo, Lucio - In: Risks : open access journal 8 (2020) 3/68, pp. 1-19

Recently, the interest of the academic literature on sports statistics has increased enormously. In such a framework, two of the most significant challenges are developing a model able to beat the existing approaches and, within a betting market framework, guarantee superior returns than the set...

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Race, market size, segregation and subsequent opportunities for former NFL head coaches

Foreman, Jeremy J.; Turick, Robert M.; Williams, Dylan P.; … - 2024

This study examines subsequent head coach opportunities for former National Football League (NFL) head coaches. Under a subsequent CEO career framework, survival analysis is used to examine the effects of race and market characteristics on subsequent NFL head coach opportunities for former head...

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An integrated batting performance analytics model for women’s cricket using Principal Component Analysis and Gini scores

Gupta, Kapil - In: Decision analytics journal 4 (2022), pp. 1-8

’s cricket but relatively little on women’s cricket. This study aims to quantify women’s batting performances in one …-day international (ODI) matches. The average batting score has traditionally been used in cricket to determine a batter’s worth. However … Gini scores can assist cricket fans, coaches, and managers in better understanding a player’s performance. …

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Hail to thee, my sports team brand : investigating the drivers of eFANgelism among fans of selected sports teams in the English Premier League (EPL)

Amani, David - In: Future Business Journal 9 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16

Sports fans participate in supporting sports teams by demonstrating various attitudinal behaviors such as loyalty, purchase intention, and stadium attendance. However, although the literature indicates that sports fans who are fanatics can demonstrate advanced attitudinal behavior such as...

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No one got paid what they were worth! : exploring player value in the early history of professional basketball

Berri, David J. - In: International journal of empirical economics 3 (2024) 2, pp. 2450007-1-2450007-22

Prior to the ABA coming into existence in 1967, the NBA enjoyed a monopsony in the market for professional basketball talent in the United States. One would predict that a monopsony would be able to exploit the talent employed. The arrival of the ABA, though, theoretically should have...

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