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Does performance consistency pay off financially for players? Evidence from the Bundesliga
The purpose of the current study is to investigate how consistency of professional soccer players` performance affects salaries in the German Bundesliga. Using game-level data for five consecutive seasons (n = 34,413 player-match day observations), we find empirical evidence for a salary premium to players showing volatility in performance. Applying ordinary least squares, fixed-effects as well as quantile regression analyses, this effect remains robust.
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| Notations: | organisations and events sport games |
| Tagging: | Bundesliga |
| Published in: | Journal of Sports Economics |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1177/1527002514521428 |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 27-43 |
| Document types: | article |
| Level: | advanced |