Match rigging and the career concerns of referees

Boeri, Tito; Severgnini, Battista

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2010.10.006

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“…Using a similar logic, we hypothesize that there will be higher DAP and DPI rates on plays run toward the offensive team's sideline, relative to the defensive team's sideline. All together, if penalty rates vary by Sideline , it would link closely to the risk adverse nature of the referee position (Boeri and Severgnini ).…”

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Persuaded Under Pressure: Evidence From the National Football League

Lopez

2016

Economic Inquiry

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We exploit a natural experiment within each National Football League game, finding the first evidence in professional sports that referees succumb to the pressures of satisfying team personnel in the vicinity of possible violations. Using generalized additive models for binomial outcomes, we show that these sideline‐based differences in penalty rates, which are observed on common but influential penalties including pass interference and holding, peak near the centralized location of players and coaches on the sideline. With sizable interests in referee decisions, coaches and players often try to manipulate referee behavior with verbal and nonverbal communications; such actions appear to be persuasive. (JEL ZO, H3)

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Persuaded Under Pressure: Evidence From the National Football League

Lopez

2016

Economic Inquiry

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“…Interestingly, not only games at high stakes were influenced, but also games before important games, for instance, in order to block a top-player for the following game. Though the case of rigging reported by Boeri and Severgnini (2011) is an extreme (and conscious) form of biased referee behavior, it shows that also games with seemingly lower stakes can have high returns to social pressure.…”

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Referee Bias

Dohmen

Sauermann

2015

Journal of Economic Surveys

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This paper surveys the empirical literature on the behavior of referees in professional football and other sports. Referees are typically appointed by a principal to be impartial, especially when unbiased referee judgment is vital for the accomplishment of the principal's objective. Answering whether referees make biased decisions and understanding the causes that lead referees to digress from their principal duty of impartiality is therefore fundamental from a theoretical point of view. At the same time, assessing the prevalence and origin of referee bias is germane to various domains of life. Referee bias is particularly relevant in sports, where partial decision‐making can determine competition outcomes, which can have strong repercussions on athletes' careers and supporters' well‐being.

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“…The Interpol/FIFA partnership has already contributed to the academic literature through the publication of the aforementioned volume (Haberfeld & Sheehan, 2013), which reviewed global responses to the problem of match-fixing. The Haberfeld and Sheehan volume provides a selection of policy responses and contributes to the growing academic literature on match-fixing, particularly in football (Boeri & Severgnini, 2011;Forrest, McHale, & McAuley, 2008;Forrest & Simmons, 2003;Hill, 2009Hill, , 2010Martin de Sanctis, 2014). There is also a growing literature on host-rights corruption.…”

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Corruption in sport: From the playing field to the field of policy

Masters

2015

Policy and Society

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How is corruption in sport evolving into a global public policy issue? In the past century, four trends have affected sport according to Paoli and Donati (2013) -de-amateurisation at the turn of the twentieth century, medicalisation since the 1960s, politicisation and commercialisation to the point where sport is now a business worth more than US$141 billion annually. Each of these trends had a corrupting effect on what is generally perceived as a past 'golden age' of sport. In the twenty-first century more public funding is being directed into sport in the developed and developing world. As a result this paper will argue organised sport has entered a fifth evolutionary trend -criminalisation. In this latest phase, public policy needs to grapple with what constitutes corruption in what has historically been a private market.

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Match rigging and the career concerns of referees

Cited by 46 publications

References 5 publications

Persuaded Under Pressure: Evidence From the National Football League

Persuaded Under Pressure: Evidence From the National Football League

Referee Bias

Corruption in sport: From the playing field to the field of policy

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