Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll

By Stephen G. Hall, Stefan Szymanski, A. Zimbalist. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer (2009, background): “Hall et al. (2002) considered the hypothesis of reverse causation in English soccer and found no evidence to support it.”
Do Sports Fans Really Value Uncertainty of Outcome?Evidence from the English Premier League (2008, unknown): “As a result, team wage is an accurate reflection of team quality and is a strong predictor of performance in English soccer (Hall et al., 2002).”
Europe’s Elite Football: Financial Growth, Sporting Success, Transfer Investment, and Private Majority Investors (2016, unknown): “[39] analyzed potential reverse causality in English football and did not find empirical evidence to support it, Dodson and Goddard [2] argued in favor of reverse causality of revenues and sporting success.”
Relative Income Position and Performance: An Empirical Panel Analysis (2006, unknown): “Hall et al. (2002) stress that such a link “plays a central role in the theory of team sports but is seldom investigated empirically” (p. 149).”
Uncertainty of Outcome or Star Quality? Television Audience Demand for English Premier League Football (2015, background): “The correlation between performance and wage bill by season is very strong (Hall, Szymanski, and Zimbalist 2002).4 Hence, the wage bill is a good reflection of skill and quality of talent.”
What shapes player performance in soccer? Empirical findings from a panel analysis (2007, background): “As Hall et al. (2002) stress, this income-performance link ‘plays a central role in the theory of team sports but is seldom investigated empirically’ (p. 149).”
The Economic Design of Sporting Contests (2003, background): “Hall et al (2002) tested for Granger causality from wages to performance and from performance to wages, and found that they could reject the latter direction of causality for English soccer but not for MLB.”