nep-spo 2018-04-30 papers

on Sports and Economics

Issue of 2018‒04‒30
two papers chosen by
João Carlos Correia Leitão
Universidade da Beira Interior

Is Football a Matter of Life and Death – Or is it more Important than that? By Peter Dolton; George MacKerron
Effects of the three-point rule in German amateur football By Dilger, Alexander; Froböse, Gerrit

Is Football a Matter of Life and Death – Or is it more Important than that?

By:	Peter Dolton; George MacKerron
Abstract:	Football is the national sport of most of the planet. This paper examines how happy the outcomes of football matches make us. We calibrate these results relative to other activities and estimate the dynamic effects these exogenous events have on our utility over time. We find that football – on average – makes us unhappier – so why would we go through the pain of following a football team. This behavioural choice paradox occupies much of the paper so we investigate why we go on following our teams, even though matches make us more unhappy on average. We examine how much our story changes if we examine the dynamic effects of football matches over time in different hours before and after the game and the extent to which our happiness is influenced by what we would rationally expect the result to be beforehand – as based on the betting odds.
Keywords:	happiness, football, behavioural economics, irrationality, dynamic effects of outcomes, framed subjective utility
JEL:	D23 D03
Date:	2018–04
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nsr:niesrd:493&r=spo

Effects of the three-point rule in German amateur football

By:	Dilger, Alexander; Froböse, Gerrit
Abstract:	Possible effects of the introduction of the three-point rule in 1995 are tested by using data from amateur football leagues in Germany, concretely in Westphalia. There are as expected signifi-cantly less draws and more goals since the rule change. For even amateurs follow incentives.
JEL:	L83
Date:	2018
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:umiodp:32018&r=spo

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