The paper analyses the impact of the relatively belated move to
professionalism in Rugby Union. We use data on match attendance for 3,667 fixtures
in European club Rugby over 15 seasons to estimate the effect of competitive ...
Rugby union only went professional in 1995, much later than other major
team sports. League structures and arrangements regarding revenue sharing and salary
caps differ between the three main European leagues. We consider ...
This paper extends Che and Gale (1998) by allowing the incumbent politician to have a preference for the policy position of one of the lobbyists. The effect of a contribution cap is analyzed where two lobbyists contest for ...
With politician preferences over policy outcomes, the effect of a contribution cap with monetary
penalties for exceeding the cap is starkly different from the case with an indifferent politician. In
contrast to Kaplan ...
Literature on gender based salary differentials has proliferated in recent years but there have been few studies on salary differentials in the accounting profession. This paper examines factors influencing remuneration ...
Literature on gender based salary differentials has proliferated in recent years but there have been few studies on salary differentials in the accounting profession. This paper examines factors influencing remuneration ...
We estimate the public wage gap in France for the period 1990-2002, both at the mean and
at different quantiles of the wage distribution, for men and women separately. We account for
unobserved heterogeneity by using ...
Political campaign spending ceilings are purported to limit the incumbent's ability to exploit his fundraising advantage. If the challenger does not have
superior campaign effectiveness, in contrast to conventional wisdom, ...