Sports really are different: The contest success function and the supply of talent

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-80

  Fort, Rodney ^a   Winfree, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Marginal product of talent; Sports league modeling; Winning percent

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; SPORT;

EID: 62749203612     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: 15737160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11151-009-9201-8     Document Type: Article

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