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Altitude as handicap in rank-order football tournaments

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  • Agustin Casas
  • Yarine Fawaz

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The structure of professional sports allows us to document predictions from the theory of rank-order tournaments (Lazear and Rosen 1981). In the context of South American FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, under the presence of heterogeneous agents, handicapping the best quality players may increase the tournaments' efficiency by making the contest more competitive. In particular, we show that playing in high-altitude stadiums (above 2500 m) constitutes a handicap as the otherwise least competitive teams benefit from the existence of an altitude advantage.

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  • Agustin Casas & Yarine Fawaz, 2016. "Altitude as handicap in rank-order football tournaments," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(3), pages 180-183, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:23:y:2016:i:3:p:180-183
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1061640
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    1. Stefan Thiem, 2021. "Spillover Effects in Contests with Heterogeneous Players - Evidence from European Football," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(12), pages 1378-1394, March.

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