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Genetic diversity and performance : evidence from football data

Beine, Michel; Peracchi, Silvia; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021

. Focusing on football (soccer), we built a novel dataset of national teams of European countries that have participated in the … matching algorithm based on family names. Performance is measured at both the unilateral and bilateral level. Identification of …

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Expectations as reference points : field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment

Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012

We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...

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Migrating football players, transfer fees and migration controls

Verbon, Harrie (contributor) - 2007

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Does crowd support drive the home advantage in professional Soccer? : evidence from German ghost games during the COVID-19 pandemic

Fischer, Kai; Haucap, Justus - 2020

This paper examines the relation between crowd support and home advantage in professional football in making use of a … football divisions during the 2019/2020 season. We find that there is a reduced home advantage in the first division, whereas …

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How much violence does football hooliganism cause?

Fabel, Marc G.; Rainer, Helmut - 2021

This paper quantifies how much of violent crime in society can be attributed to football-related violence. We study the … universe of professional football matches played out in Germany's top three football leagues over the period 2011-2015. To … violent crimes on days with and without professional football matches while controlling for date heterogeneity, weather, and …

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Sports clubs and populism : quasi-experimental evidence from German cities

Foertsch, Mona; Rösel, Felix - 2023

Does social capital always promote solidarity and democracy, or are social networks such as sports clubs also vulnerable to populism? We exploit quasi-experimental variation in sports club membership in German cities. Sports clubs are booming in cities with successful soccer teams which pass the...

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The IOC's midas touch : Summer Olympics and city growth

Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - 2013

Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a...

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The impact of managerial change on performance : the role of team heterogeneity

Hentschel, Sandra; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2012

on coach dismissals in the German football league where the selection of players is indeed a key task of the coach …

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Market segmentation in two-sided markets : TV rights for Premier League

Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars - 2013

This paper analyzes market segmentation in a two-sided market that consists of media consumers and advertisers. The analysis is motivated by a European Court of Justice Decision in October 2011, which allowed viewers to take advantage of international price differences and buy access to Premier...

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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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