Offensive performance, omitted variables, and the value of speed in baseball

Economics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 283-286

  Turocy, Theodore L ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseball; Equilibrium test; Mixed strategies; Omitted variable bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744512270     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2005.05.039     Document Type: Article

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