Abstract
The paper investigates home advantages in skeleton. Our study broadens home advantage literature by providing models and estimation strategy applicable to other individual sports with tracks or courses such as biathlon, cross country skiing, etc. We identified two sources of advantages: support from the crowd; familiarity with the track. In the Olympics and the World Championships, home advantage leads to about a 0.510% improvement in performance on average, of which 0.110%-points are due to crowd support and 0.401%-points due to familiarity. Out-contribution of familiarity effect is common in all six major skeleton series.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 3-26 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Journal of Sports Economics |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 Jan |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2020.
Keywords
- crowd support
- familiarity
- fixed effects
- home advantage
- skeleton
- sledding sports
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)