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  • Sub-Perfect Game: Profitable Biases of NBA Referees

    Creator:
    Price, Joseph, Remer, Marc, and Stone, Daniel F.
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    This paper empirically investigates three hypotheses regarding biases of National Basketball Association (NBA) referees. Using a sample of 28,388 quarter-level observations from six seasons, we find that referees make calls that favor home teams, teams losing during games, and teams losing in playoff series. All three biases are likely to...
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    Sub-Perfect Game: Profitable Biases of NBA Referees December

  • Essays on behavioral economics

    Creator:
    Cao, Zheng
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    This dissertation consists of two essays that address behavioral economics issues. In first chapter we analyze the effects of psychological pressure on performance using National Basketball Association (NBA) free throw data from the 2002-2003 through 2009-2010 seasons. We find evidence that players choke under pressure – they shoot on average...
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    racial discrimination among NBA referees by examining the effect of racial composition of the