We analyse how a change in the probability of winning a tournament affects an agent's effort using the qualification rules for entry into the group and playoff stages of the UEFA Champions' League. Our results suggest that increasing the number of slots that a national league gets in the...

This paper evaluates the European football clubs' compliance with UEFA Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations and the effect of financial stability on sport achievements. The empirical analysis uses data of teams competing in the 1st division of four top domestic leagues (Premier League, La Liga,...

We are the first to investigate whether the introduction of additional assistant referees in the UEFA Europa League (in season 2009-2010) and the UEFA Champions League (in season 2010-2011) was associated with lower referee bias. To this end, we analyse a unique database with pre- and...

We investigate whether the home advantage in soccer differs by various dimensions of distance between the (regions of the) home and away teams: geographical distance, climatic differences, cultural distance, and disparities in economic prosperity. To this end, we analyse 2,012 recent matches...

This study is the first to estimate the effects of the sending-off of a player on the full time results in international club soccer. To this end, we analyse data of more than 2,000 recent games in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. We find that when home teams receive a red card,...

We investigate the role of fatigue in soccer (football). Although this issue is important for the "productivity" of players and the optimal organization of national and international championships, empirical evidence is lacking. We use data on all the matches played by national teams in all the...

We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high skilled labor market. We characterize worker productivity as the ability to contribute to physical output and define firm productivity as the capacity to transform physical output...

In den letzten Monaten stand das deutsche »Exportmodell« in der Kritik. Die deutschen Überschüsse seien mitverantwortlich für die Defizite der Nachbarländer und schaden den Handelspartnern. Ist diese Einschätzung gerechtfertigt? Für Gabriel Felbermayr, Universität Hohenheim, entbehren...

Eine Analyse von Andreas Gontermann, ZVEI, Frankfurt am Main, zeigt, dass die Elektroindustrie in Europa in weiten Teilen von fünf Ländern getragen wird. Vergleicht man die deutsche Elektroindustrie mit ihren Schwesterbranchen in Frankreich, Großbritannien, Italien und Spanien, wird deutlich,...

Durch illegale Nachahmungen können designaktiven, innovativen Unternehmen große finanzielle Nachteile und kaum zu quantifizierende Imageschäden entstehen. Zur Abwehr von Plagiaten können nach deutschem Recht verschiedene Schutzmöglichkeiten eingesetzt werden, z. B. Musterrecht,...