Do fans impact sports outcomes? A COVID-19 natural experiment
(Beeinflussen Fans die sportlichen Ergebnisse? Ein natürliches COVID-19-Experiment)
This paper studies the effect of fan attendance on home field advantage in top European soccer leagues. We exploit exogenous variation in the level of fan attendance driven by COVID-19 mitigation policies and find that the home field advantage, as measured by home goals minus away goals, is reduced by 57% across the English Premier League, German Bundesliga, Italian Serie A, and Spanish La Liga. We find that this leads to a shift in match outcomes from wins to losses with no change in the probability that a match is a draw.
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| Notationen: | Spielsportarten Organisationen und Veranstaltungen |
| Tagging: | Coronavirus Heimvorteil |
| Veröffentlicht in: | SSRN |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2020
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| Online-Zugang: | http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3705085 |
| Seiten: | 1-35 |
| Dokumentenarten: | elektronische Publikation |
| Level: | hoch |