Does monitoring affect corruption? Career concerns and home bias in football refereeing

Rocha, Bruno; Sanches, Fábio Adriano; Souza, Igor; and Carlos Domingos da Silva, José (2013) Does monitoring affect corruption? Career concerns and home bias in football refereeing. Applied Economics Letters, 20 (8). pp. 728-731. ISSN 1350-4851

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This article evaluates refereeing bias in football games. Using a data set for Brazilian Championship, we find that referees systematically favour home teams setting more extra time in close matches in which home teams are behind. Career concerns seem to be relevant, since monitoring inhibits this behaviour and the effect of the refereeing bias on the probability of scoring in the extra time is quantitatively negligible.

Item Type	Article
Keywords	referee bias,social pressure,sports economics
Departments	Economics
DOI	10.1080/13504851.2012.736938
Date Deposited	19 Mar 2013 08:16
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/49220

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