Favoritism of agents - The case of referees' home bias

By Matthias Sutter, Martin G. Kocher. 2003

280 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Safety Research

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Rob Simmons
2. Babatunde Buraimo
3. David Forrest
4. John O. S. Wilson
5. Alex Bryson
6. John Goddard
7. Peter Dawson
8. Stephen Dobson

In Marketing

1. Alex Bryson
2. Richard Pollard
3. Thomas J. Dohmen
4. John Goddard
5. Peter Dawson
6. Stephen Dobson
7. Vincenzo Scoppa
8. John O. S. Wilson

In Safety Research

1. Matthias Sutter
2. Martin G. Kocher
3. Richard Pollard
4. Vincenzo Scoppa
5. Michela Ponzo
6. Alex Bryson
7. Thomas J. Dohmen
8. Peter Dawson

Citations in the corpus

• Are football referees really biased and inconsistent?: evidence on the incidence of disciplinary sanction in the English Premier League (2007, methodology): “Using German Bundesliga data, Sutter and Kocher (2004) analyse reports on the referee’s performance, which comment on the legitimacy of penalties awarded and on cases of failure to award a legitimate penalty.”
• Causal effects of an absent crowd on performances and refereeing decisions during Covid-19 (2020, background): “There is already a well-developed literature investigating the effects of social pressure in sports on the decision making of participants and on contest outcomes (e.g., Dohmen and Sauermann, 2016; Garicano et al., 2005; Sutter and Kocher, 2004).”
• Home Advantage in Football: A Current Review of an Unsolved Puzzle (2008, background): “The bias was then demonstrated in a laboratory setting [27,28] and subsequently by returning to referee decisions after carefully controlling for confounding variables [10,29-32].”
• Referee Bias (2016, background): “For international contests, Torgler (2004) and Dawson and Dobson (2010) provide evidence that referees tend to favor teams that are closer to them in terms of nationality.”
• Does the Home Advantage Depend on Crowd Support? Evidence From Same-Stadium Derbies (2018, background): “awarding more penalties and less disciplinary sanctions to the home team or conceding more injury time to it when is behind (Nevill et al. 2002; Garicano et al., 2005; Dohmen, 2008; Sutter and Kocher, 2004; Scoppa, 2008; Dawson and Dobson, 2010; Page and Page, 2010).”
• Game Location Effects in Professional Soccer: A Case Study (2005, background): “In soccer, only three studies have considered the effects of game location upon primary performance measures with a number of differences observed in behaviours indicative of attacking tactics in favour of the home team (Nevill et al., 1996; Sasaki et al., 1999; Sutter and Kocher, 2004).”
• Time is money - Time pressure, incentives, and the quality of decision-making (2006, background): “7 Nevill et al. (2002) or Sutter and Kocher (2004), for instance, have shown that soccer referees are heavily influenced by the crowd noise in the stadium when making decisions on fouls, penalties or extra time.”
• Behavior Under Social Pressure: Empty Italian Stadiums and Referee Bias (2010, background): “1 Interesting exceptions are Garicano et al. (2005), Dohmen (2005) and Sutter and Kocher (2004).”
• The 12th man?: refereeing bias in English and German soccer (2010, background): “Dohmen (2008) and Sutter and Kocher (2004) reported that, for the German Bundesliga, referees added more time in games where the home team was behind.”