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- Title
Professional team sporting success: do economic and personal freedom provide competitive advantages?
- Authors
Bykova, Anna; Coates, Dennis
- Abstract
Using Major League Soccer data from 2004 to 2018 seasons as a rich dataset, this study examines the role of economic and personal freedom at subnational (state) level in determining team performance. Inspired by public economics studies and issues related with labour migration, unlike previous studies, we investigate the relationship between the quality of a state's institutions and team (firm) outcome. Our estimates suggest that un(freedom) has statistical significant and harmful but not large impact on sports results in soccer. The magnitude of the effect depends on the initial level of team performance.
- Subjects
MAJOR League Soccer (Organization); ECONOMIC liberty; SPORTS teams; PROFESSIONAL sports; TEAM sports; COMPETITIVE advantage in business; EMIGRATION &; immigration
- Publication
Economics of Governance, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 3/4, p323
- ISSN
1435-6104
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10101-022-00280-3