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| Author: | Rickman, N. Witt, R. |
| Title: | Favouritism and financial incentives: A natural experiment |
| Journal: | Economica
2008 : MAY, VOL. 75:298, p. 296-309 |
| Index terms: | finance incentives sports industry football |
| Freeterms: | favouritism professionalism |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Principals exercising favouritism (hereafter as: ftsm.) towards certain agents may harm those not so favoured. This study explores the issue in the context of a natural experiment from English soccer. The effects of professional referees is studied on a common measure of referee bias: length of injury time in close matches. It is found that referees exercised a degree of ftsm. prior to professionalism but not afterwards, having controlled for selection and soccer-wide effects. |
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