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Professional team sporting success: do economic and personal freedom provide competitive advantages?

Authors: Anna Bykova, Dennis Coates

Published in: Economics of Governance | Issue 3-4/2022

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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.

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Title: Professional team sporting success: do economic and personal freedom provide competitive advantages?
Authors: Anna Bykova
Dennis Coates
Publication date: 07-10-2022
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Economics of Governance / Issue 3-4/2022
Print ISSN: 1435-6104
Electronic ISSN: 1435-8131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10101-022-00280-3

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