Do Tournaments With Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?. (January 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Do Tournaments With Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?. (January 2020)
- Main Title:
- Do Tournaments With Superstars Encourage or Discourage Competition?
- Authors:
- Babington, Michael
Goerg, Sebastian J.
Kitchens, Carl - Abstract:
- To test and replicate the superstar effect reported by Brown, we empirically study contests where a single entrant has an exogenously higher probability of winning. Unlike the previous literature, we test for the presence of the superstar effect in several new contexts. Ultimately, we collect and explore data from four sources: men's and women's professional golf, and men's and women's professional alpine skiing. Empirically, we find little robust evidence of the superstar effect in any of our data sets. In our replication exercise, we approximate the findings of Brown; however, we cannot reject the null that the presence of a superstar has no impact on high ranked competitors. In our new settings, we cannot reject the null that superstars have no influence on the performances of highly ranked competitors.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of sports economics. Volume 21:Number 1(2020)
- Journal:
- Journal of sports economics
- Issue:
- Volume 21:Number 1(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 21, Issue 1 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0021-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 44
- Page End:
- 63
- Publication Date:
- 2020-01
- Subjects:
- contest -- golf -- skiing
Sports -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals
Sports administration -- Periodicals
338.47796 - Journal URLs:
- http://jse.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/1527002519859405 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1527-0025
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