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Psychological pressure in competitive environments: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment ; comment

Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than teams kicking second. Collecting data for the entire history of six major soccer competitions we cannot replicate their result. Teams kicking first win only 53.4% of 262 shootouts in our data, which is not significantly different from random. Our findings have two implications: (1) Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta's results are not generally robust. (2) Using specific subsamples without a coherent criterion for data selection might lead to non-representative findings.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4846

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Field Experiments
Thema
Tournament
first-mover advantage
psychological pressure
field experiment
soccer
penalty shootouts
Extensives Spiel
Stress
Feldforschung
Fußballsport

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kocher, Martin G.
Lenz, Marc V.
Sutter, Matthias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kocher, Martin G.
  • Lenz, Marc V.
  • Sutter, Matthias
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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