Point Shaving: Corruption in NCAA Basketball

By Justin Wolfers. 2006

154 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Economics and Econometrics

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Melissa Dell

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Melissa Dell
2. E. Meyersson
3. Daron Acemoglu
4. Richard S. J. Tol
5. R. Crescenzi
6. Morgan Kelly
7. Timothy G. Conley
8. Mara Giua

Citations in the corpus

• Do Hedge Fund Managers Misreport Returns? Evidence from the Pooled Distribution (2009, unknown): “Wolfers (2006) points out that the structure of bets on college basketball in the U.S. generates asymmetric payoffs involving the winning margin of favored teams.”
• Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War (2015, background): “…examine topics ranging from earnings manipulation (Bollen and Pool, 2009; Bhojraj et al., 2009) to the production of defective products (Krueger and Mas, 2004) to fixing the outcomes of sporting events (Wolfers, 2006; Duggan and Levitt, 2002) to sex-selective abortions in Taiwan (Lin et al., 2008).”