| Description |
xii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. One Introduction and Overview / Carsten Schmidt -- pt. I On-Pitch Phenomena -- Myths and Flawed Belief -- ch. Two Footballers' Fallacies- / Anna Braennberg -- ch. Three Intuitive Physics: Naive Concepts About the Ball's Momentum Among Professional Football Players / Friedrich Wilkening -- ch. Four Performance Under Pressure: The Case of Penalty Shootouts in Football / Matthias Sutter -- Strategic Choice -- ch. Five The Penalty-Duel and Institutional Design: Is there a Neeskens-Effect? / Axel Ockenfels -- ch. Six Biased Decisions of Professional Football Players: Do Goalkeepers Dive too Often During Penalty Kicks? / Michael Bar-Eli -- Team Behaviour and Performance -- ch. Seven Post-Scoring Behaviour and Team Success in Football / Chanan Goldschmidt -- ch. Eight Shirt Colour and Team Performance in Football / Matthias Sutter -- ch. Nine The Second Leg Home Advantage: Evidence from European Football Cup Competitions / Katie Page -- |
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Contents note continued: Referee Behaviour -- ch. Ten Crime and Punishment in Professional Football. Evidence from the English Premier League / Peter Dawson -- ch. Eleven Basic Psychological Processes Underlying Referees' Decision Making / Christian Unkelbach -- pt. II Off-Pitch Phenomena -- Fan Behaviour and Demand for Football -- ch. Twelve Fan Pressure and Football Outcomes / Rob Simmons -- ch. Thirteen The football fan and the critical incident: How important are specific incidents for overall evaluations of the favourite club? / Magnus Soderlund -- ch. Fourteen Competitive Balance and Demand for Football: The Influence of a Liability of Newness in the Spanish Football League / Guillermo Villa -- Expert and Market Predictions of Match Outcome -- ch. Fifteen Expert Predictions of Football: A Survey of the Literature and an Empirical Inquiry into Tipsters' and Odds-Setters' Ability to Predict the World Cup / Patric Andersson -- |
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Contents note continued: ch. Sixteen How Accurately do Markets Predict the Outcome of an Event? The Euro 2000 Football Experiment / Axel Werwatz -- ch. Seventeen Accuracy, Certainty and Surprise - A Prediction Market on the Outcome of the 2002 FIFA World Cup / Henning Oskar Volkland -- Labour Market and Conditions for Footballers -- ch. Eighteen Team Performance and Individual Career Duration: Evidence from the German Bundesliga / Joachim Prinz -- ch. Nineteen Relative Income Position, Inequality and Performance: An Empirical Panel Analysis / Sascha L. Schmidt -- Stock-Market Reactions to Events of Listed Football Clubs -- ch. Twenty Determinants of share price variations of listed football clubs: Empirical evidence from English football leagues / Sebastien Soulez -- ch. Twenty One The only way is up? Match Outcome and Stock Price Reactions of Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA / Georg Stadtmann |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Soccer -- Economic aspects.
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Soccer -- Psychological aspects.
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| Author |
Andersson, Patric.
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Ayton, Peter.
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Schmidt, Carsten.
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| ISBN |
9781847186225 hardback |
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184718622X hardback |
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9781443801140 paperback |
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1443801143 paperback |
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