A generalized model for testing the home and favorite team advantage in point spread markets

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 295-318

  Dare, William H ^a   MacDonald, S Scott ^b  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Betting; Efficiency; Favored; Football; Rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030077089     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-405X(95)00848-9     Document Type: Article

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