Beautiful Game Theory How Soccer Can Help Economics

A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide insight into many aspects of sports, including s...

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Hlavný autor:	Palacios-Huerta, Ignacio
Médium:	E-kniha Kniha Publikácia
Jazyk:	English
Vydavateľské údaje:	Princeton Princeton University Press 2014
Vydanie:	1
Predmet:	Attendance Behavioral economics Betfair BUSINESS & ECONOMICS BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory Coefficient Competition Covariate Customer Decision-making Deloitte Determinant Dummy variable (statistics) Economic aspects Economics Economics > Psychological aspects Economist Efficient-market hypothesis Electroencephalography Employment Equating Estimation Ethnic group Experiment Experimental economics Field experiment First Book Functional magnetic resonance imaging Fußball Game Theory Gaussian (software) Human behavior Human subject research Incentive Income Inference Investment Marginal cost Market participant Matching Pennies MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS / Game Theory Microeconomics Mikroökonomik Neuroimaging Null hypothesis Order book (trading) Outcome (game theory) Overreaction Participant Pearson's chi-squared test Percentage Percentage point Point system (driving) Prediction Prendergast Probability Psychological aspects Psychology Quantity Racism Random sequence Randomization Rationality Reinforcement learning Result Scientist Share price Soccer Soccer > Economic aspects Spieltheorie SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer Standard deviation Standard error Statistical significance Stock market Suicide attack Test statistic Theorie Theory Trade-off Trading strategy Urrutia Vandalism Verhaltensökonomik Wirtschaftspsychologie Zero-Sum Game Competition Decision-making Customer Psychology Income Standard error Efficient-market hypothesis Covariate Human subject research Prendergast Field experiment Pearson's chi-squared test Result Game Theory Functional magnetic resonance imaging Outcome (game theory) Point system (driving) Economics Incentive Experimental economics Dummy variable (statistics) Rationality Order book (trading) Estimation Determinant Experiment Trade-off Prediction Percentage point Trading strategy Share price Scientist Inference Suicide attack Ethnic group Statistical significance Economist Zero-Sum Game Random sequence First Book Participant Microeconomics Urrutia Human behavior Vandalism Investment Neuroimaging Equating Electroencephalography Null hypothesis Randomization Betfair Gaussian (software) Employment Market participant Standard deviation Stock market Attendance Coefficient Test statistic Percentage Reinforcement learning Overreaction Probability Quantity Behavioral economics Matching Pennies Racism Marginal cost Deloitte
ISBN:	0691144028, 9780691144023, 1400850312, 9781400850310, 9781306683777, 1306683777
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Shrnutí:	A wealth of research in recent decades has seen the economic approach to human behavior extended over many areas previously considered to belong to sociology, political science, law, and other fields. Research has also shown that economics can provide insight into many aspects of sports, including soccer.Beautiful Game Theoryis the first book that uses soccer to test economic theories and document novel human behavior. In this brilliant and entertaining book, Ignacio Palacios-Huerta illuminates economics through the world's most popular sport. He offers unique and often startling insights into game theory and microeconomics, covering topics such as mixed strategies, discrimination, incentives, and human preferences. He also looks at finance, experimental economics, behavioral economics, and neuroeconomics. Soccer provides rich data sets and environments that shed light on universal economic principles in interesting and useful ways. Essential reading for students, researchers, and sports enthusiasts,Beautiful Game Theory is the first book to showwhat soccer can do for economics.
Bibliografia:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-204) and index
ISBN:	0691144028 9780691144023 1400850312 9781400850310 9781306683777 1306683777
DOI:	10.1515/9781400850310