Do Firms Maximize? Evidence from Professional Football

By D. Romer. Journal of Political Economy, 2006

216 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Safety Research

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Pedro Garcia‐del‐Barrio
2. Stefan Szymanski
3. Patricia M. Dechow
4. Eric J. Allen
5. Devin G. Pope
6. George Wu
7. Rob Simmons
8. Andrea Weber

In Marketing

1. Pedro Garcia‐del‐Barrio
2. Stefan Szymanski
3. Patricia M. Dechow
4. Eric J. Allen
5. Devin G. Pope
6. George Wu

In Safety Research

1. Stefan Szymanski
2. Pedro Garcia‐del‐Barrio
3. Patricia M. Dechow
4. Eric J. Allen
5. Devin G. Pope
6. George Wu

Citations in the corpus

• Reference-Dependent Preferences: Evidence from Marathon Runners (2014, methodology): “This bias has been used to 9A similar argument could be made for football coaches who do not follow the optimal fourth-down strategy outlined by Romer (2006).”
• Goal! Profit Maximization Versus Win Maximization in Soccer (2009, background): “By contrast, Romer (2006) examined the choices of American football coaches and found that they were systematically inconsistent with maximizing behavior.”