Win or Go Home: Why college football coaches get fired

Journal of Sports Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 157-178

  Holmes, Paul ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT FREDONIA   (United States)

Author keywords

coaches; college football; discrete time hazard; dismissals; expectation formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952907844     PISSN: 15270025     EISSN: 15527794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527002510378820     Document Type: Article

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