Riding High: Success in Sports and the Rise of Doping Cultures

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 539-574

  Strulik, Holger ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Doping; Rank loss aversion; Social dynamics; Sport; Taste for victory

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; MODELING; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPORT;

EID: 84861202041     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: 14679442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2012.01698.x     Document Type: Article

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