Home Advantage Revisited: Did COVID Level the Playing Fields?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Home Advantage Revisited: Did COVID Level the Playing Fields?

Published:2022-01-01 Issue:56 Volume:9 Page:56-67
ISSN:2543-6821
Container-title:Central European Economic Journal
language:en
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Author:

Strawiński Paweł¹^ORCID,Krawczyk Michał¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of Warsaw , Faculty of Economic Sciences , Długa 44/50 , Warsaw , Poland

Abstract

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic swept fans out of the stadiums, but matches continued to be played in most major football leagues. We make use of this natural experiment to investigate if home field advantage disappears when the home team is not supported by the fans. Focusing on four top European football leagues, we find such an effect in the Bundesliga only. We propose that this singularity may be related to the special role that the fan associations play in German football.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/ceej-2022-0004

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