Temporal variations in technical efficiency: evidence from German soccer |
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| Authors: | Bernd Frick Young Hoon Lee |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Management, University of Paderborn, Warburger Strasse 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany;(2) Institute for Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Community, University of Trier, Campus II, 54286 Trier, Germany;(3) Department of Economics, Sogang University, Sinsoo-Dong #1, Mapo-gu Seoul, 121-742, Korea |
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| Abstract: | This paper applies stochastic production frontier models with time-varying technical efficiency to a panel data set including
hitherto unavailable information on team wage bills from the first division in German professional soccer (the “Bundesliga”)
covering the years 1981–2003. We demonstrate that individual teams experience significant variation in technical efficiency
over an extended period of 22 seasons while the league’s average level of efficiency remains constant over time. More detailed
analyses reveal that, first, the decision to fire or to retain the head coach is mainly influenced by changes in managerial
efficiency between two adjacent seasons and, second, relegated teams on average experience considerable reductions in technical
efficiency compared to the previous season. |
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