Titlebook: Breaking the Ice; The Economics of Hoc Bernd Frick Book 2017 Springer International Publishing AG 2017 hockey.NHL.competitive balance.dynam

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-65305-8-ice synergies amongst homogeneous players. The inferences are of general interest to managerial economists who can increase firm-level productivity by hiring employees that speak similar languages and share ideas regardless of their cultural background.

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From Strikes to Lockouts: Consequences of the Shift in the Balance of Power from the Players’ Union ues by a decade. Moreover, the union leadership was ineffectual until Bob Goodenow succeeded Alan Eagleson as the head of the NHLPA in 1992. Under Goodenow the players used strikes and the threat of strikes to leverage mobility rights including unrestricted free agency and salary arbitration, all of

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Returns to Handedness in Professional Hockeye recently shown that in the soccer labor market, being able to kick well with both the left and the right foot is rewarded with a salary premium. This paper examines pay and performance for hockey players that shoot left-handed versus those that shoot right-handed. We find that after controlling fo

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The Source of the Cultural or Language Diversity Effects in the National Hockey Leagueiving the effects. It makes inferences based on various analyses of micro-level data that include information relating to player interactions, which suggest that the diversity effects are a result of lower off-ice communication costs rather than reduced cultural dominance of the domestic group or on

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Team-Level Referee Discrimination in the National Hockey Leaguewhether the findings are based on players of a different or the same race/ethnicity. This paper tests for team-level discrimination amongst professional hockey referees, and finds that French-Canadian referees favor teams, in the form of fewer penalty calls, that have more French-Canadian players. T

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The Effect of ‘Superstars’ on Attendance: NHL-Players in the German and Czech Hockey Leaguey clubs. While the sporting abilities of these players are unquestioned, the attendance effects for the teams signing these players have remained unclear. This chapter analyzes game-level data from the German and the Czech premier hockey leagues to capture attendance effects of these “stars” usually

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An Exploration of Dynamic Pricing in the National Hockey Leagueers from variable ticket pricing in that prices are allowed to fluctuate throughout the season based upon supply and demand. Through a regression model, it is discovered that the greatest impact on dynamic ticket prices is due to popular opponents. Uncertainty of outcome is only found to be signific