The effects of referees on the final score in football

This paper examines whether there exists favouritism by individual referees in favour of the home team in Argentina’s first division football (soccer) league. We study 936 matches between 2008 and 2010, and run both ordinary least squares (OLS) and two-stage least squares (2-SLS) specifications. Usi...

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Main Authors: Matías Fontenla, Germán M. Izón
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional del Sur (Ediuns) 2018-06-01
Series:Estudios Económicos
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Online Access:https://revistas.uns.edu.ar/ee/article/view/1098