Güner, Ilhan, Hamidi Sahneh, Mehdi (2022) Dancing with the Stars: Does Playing in Elite Tournaments Affect Performance? Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 85 (1). pp. 1-34. ISSN 0305-9049. (doi:10.1111/obes.12520) (KAR id:95832)
PDF
Publisher pdf
Language: English
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
|
|
Download this file (PDF/798kB) |
Preview |
Request a format suitable for use with assistive technology e.g. a screenreader | |
PDF
Author's Accepted Manuscript
Language: English Restricted to Repository staff only |
|
Contact us about this Publication
|
![]() |
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12520 |
Abstract
This paper documents spillover effects using participation in an elite international football tournament as a laboratory. Using a novel dataset from top 5 European football leagues, we find that participation in highly selective UEFA Champions League (UCL) generates large performance gains to participating teams in their domestic leagues. More precisely, UCL participation improves goal difference (goals scored minus goals conceded) by approximately 0.3 goals per game and probability margin (probability of winning minus probability of losing) by approximately 10 percentage points. By investigating causal channels through which participation in the UCL might affect performance, we argue that our results suggest the importance of spillover effects in sports.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
DOI/Identification number: | 10.1111/obes.12520 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Statistics, probability and uncertainty, economics and econometrics, social sciences |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics |
Funders: | University of Kent (https://ror.org/00xkeyj56) |
Depositing User: | Ilhan Guner |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2022 14:33 UTC |
Last Modified: | 10 Jan 2024 02:52 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/95832 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
- Link to SensusAccess
- Export to:
- RefWorks
- EPrints3 XML
- BibTeX
- CSV
- Depositors only (login required):