Paul, Saumik; Mitra, Ronita - In: Applied Economics Letters 15 (2008) 15, pp. 1171-1176
Since 1993 the Federation of International Football Association's (FIFA) monthly world ranking system for senior national football teams has become a reliable source to judge a team's potentiality in football. In the past four FIFA worldcup football tournaments from 1994 to 2006, the top seeded...