No place like home: An examination of the home field advantage in gambling strategies in NFL football

Journal of Economics and Business

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-31

  Vergin, Roger C ^a   Sosik, John J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficient markets hypothesis; Home field advantage; NFL betting; Point spread

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009802013     PISSN: 00129933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0148-6195(98)00025-3     Document Type: Article

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