Changing rewards in contests: Has the three-point rule brought more offense to soccer?

Empirical Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 607-630

  Guedes, José Correia ^a   Machado, Fernando S ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Contests; Incentives; Rewards; Strategy in sports

Indexed keywords

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPORT; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 0036968278     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001810100106     Document Type: Article

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