Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/77568 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 73
Publisher: 
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Zurich
Abstract: 
We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards, with a significantly higher probability if his team is behind the expected match outcome, measured by pre-play betting odds of large professional bookmakers. We derive these results in two independent data sets, one from ten seasons of the German Bundesliga, the other from eight seasons the English Premier League, each with more than half a million minutes of play.
Subjects: 
reference points
expectations
experience
high stakes
competition
JEL: 
D03
D81
D84
L83
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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