Performing without Pressure? The Effect of Ghost Games on Effort- and Skill-based Tasks in the Football Bundesliga

We analyze the natural experiment of ghost games in the 2019/2020 season of the German football Bundesliga and confirm previous studies showing that the home advantage diminishes if the stadium is empty. However, our paper is the first that distinguishes between effort- and skill-based tasks in this...

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Опубліковано в::MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 27-2022)
Автори: Bühren, Christoph, Jung, Dominic
Формат: Стаття
Мова:англійська
Опубліковано: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2022
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Резюме:We analyze the natural experiment of ghost games in the 2019/2020 season of the German football Bundesliga and confirm previous studies showing that the home advantage diminishes if the stadium is empty. However, our paper is the first that distinguishes between effort- and skill-based tasks in this setting. In line with behavioral economics, we observe that a supportive audience has a positive effect on effort-based performance but a negative effect on some offensive skill-based performance measures.
Фізичний опис:20 Seiten
ISSN:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0735