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In-season head-coach dismissals and the performance of professional football teams

van Ours,Jan
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van Tuijl,Martin
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This paper studies the causes and consequences of in-season changes of the head-coach of association football teams. We exploit data from the highest level of Dutch professional football during 14 successive seasons. An in-season change of the head-coach depends on recent match results and the difference between actual results and expectations as measured using bookmaker data. We find that, after the head-coach has been replaced, teams perform better than before. However, the performance is also better than before for a control group of coach replacements that did not occur. From this we conclude that replacement of head-coaches does not improve team performance.
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2016-01
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Tilburg University Research Output Collection
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J44 - Professional Labor Markets ; Occupational Licensing, L83 - Sports ; Gambling ; Restaurants ; Recreation ; Tourism
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van Ours, J & van Tuijl, M 2016, 'In-season head-coach dismissals and the performance of professional football teams', Economic Inquiry, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 591-604. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12280
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14602/64240
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