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Do Firms Maximize? Evidence from Professional Football

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  2. Michele Fioretti, 2022. "Caring or Pretending to Care? Social Impact, Firms' Objectives, and Welfare (former title: Social Responsibility and Firm's Objectives)," SciencePo Working papers Main hal-03393065, HAL.
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  5. Pasteur R. Drew & Cunningham-Rhoads Kyle, 2014. "An expectation-based metric for NFL field goal kickers," Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, De Gruyter, vol. 10(1), pages 49-66, January.
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  16. Kotchen, Matthew J. & Potoski, Matthew, 2014. "Conflicts of interest distort public evaluations: Evidence from NCAA football coaches," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 107(PA), pages 51-63.
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  21. Eric Zwick, 2018. "The Costs of Corporate Tax Complexity," NBER Working Papers 24382, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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  30. Brian Goff & Stephen L. Locke, 2019. "Revisiting Romer: Digging Deeper Into Influences on NFL Managerial Decisions," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 20(5), pages 671-689, June.
  31. Kenneth Kovash & Steven D. Levitt, 2009. "Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League," NBER Working Papers 15347, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  32. Lars Lefgren & Brennan Platt & Joseph Price, 2011. "Sticking with What (Barely) Worked," NBER Working Papers 17477, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  33. Romain Gauriot & Lionel Page, 2019. "Does Success Breed Success? a Quasi-Experiment on Strategic Momentum in Dynamic Contests," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 129(624), pages 3107-3136.
  34. Gil Aharoni & Oded H. Sarig, 2012. "Hot hands and equilibrium," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(18), pages 2309-2320, June.
  35. Owens, Mark F. & Roach, Michael A., 2018. "Decision-making on the hot seat and the short list: Evidence from college football fourth down decisions," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 148(C), pages 301-314.
  36. Sebastian Bervoets & Bruno Decreuse & Mathieu Faure, 2014. "A Renewed Analysis of Cheating in Contests: Theory and Evidence from Recovery Doping," AMSE Working Papers 1441, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France, revised Jun 2015.
  37. Ventura Samuel L., 2020. "What will we unlearn next? The implications of Lopez (2020)," Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, De Gruyter, vol. 16(2), pages 81-83, June.
  38. Enoch Owusu-Sekyere & Helena Hansson & Evgenij Telezhenko, 2022. "Use and non-use values to explain farmers’ motivation for the provision of animal welfare," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 49(2), pages 499-525.
  39. Michael William Gmeiner, 2019. "History-Dependent Mixed Strategies: Evidence From Major League Baseball," Journal of Sports Economics, , vol. 20(3), pages 371-398, April.
  40. McGough Erin & Clemons Curtis & Ferrara Michael & Norfolk Timothy & Young Gerald W, 2010. "A Game-Theoretic Approach to Personnel Decisions in American Football," Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, De Gruyter, vol. 6(4), pages 1-15, October.
  41. Fry Michael J. & Shukairy F. Alan, 2012. "Searching for Momentum in the NFL," Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, De Gruyter, vol. 8(1), pages 1-20, March.
  42. Matthew Lowe & Chris Papageorgiou & Fidel Perez-Sebastian, 2012. "The Public and Private MPK," DEGIT Conference Papers c017_021, DEGIT, Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade.
  43. Ozbeklik, Serkan & Smith, Janet Kiholm, 2017. "Risk taking in competition: Evidence from match play golf tournaments," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 44(C), pages 506-523.
  44. Jonathan Seaton, 2009. "A nonparametric revealed preference test of optimal intra-firm resource allocation," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(27), pages 3463-3476.
  45. Jorge Tovar, 2014. "Gasping for Air: Soccer players’ performance at high-altitude," Documentos CEDE 11949, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.
  46. David W. Lehman & Jungpil Hahn & Rangaraj Ramanujam & Bradley J. Alge, 2011. "The Dynamics of the Performance--Risk Relationship Within a Performance Period: The Moderating Role of Deadline Proximity," Organization Science, INFORMS, vol. 22(6), pages 1613-1630, December.
  47. Klaassen, Franc J.G.M. & Magnus, Jan R., 2009. "The efficiency of top agents: An analysis through service strategy in tennis," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 148(1), pages 72-85, January.
  48. Asplund, Björn Marcus, 2007. "A Test of Profit Maximization," CEPR Discussion Papers 6177, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  49. Xiaoyu Xia & Juin Kuan Chong, 2022. "No Magic for Market Entry in the Field: Evidence from Taxi Markets," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 68(6), pages 4670-4684, June.
  50. Gaenssle, Sophia & Budzinski, Oliver, 2019. "Stars in social media: New light through old windows?," Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers 123, Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics.
  51. Goldman, Matt & Rao, Justin M., 2017. "Optimal stopping in the NBA: Sequential search and the shot clock," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 107-124.
  52. Greg Howard, 2024. "A Check for Rational Inattention," Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 2(1), pages 172-199.
  53. Sacha Kapoor, 2020. "Inefficient incentives and nonprice allocations: Experimental evidence from big‐box restaurants," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(2), pages 401-419, April.
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