Coaches on Fire or Firing the Coach? Evidence of the Impact of Coach Changes on Team Performance from Italian Serie A

Alessandro Argentieri, Luciano Canova and Matteo Manera ()

No 294196, ETA: Economic Theory and Applications from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

Abstract: In this paper, football data from the 2007/2008 to 2016/2017 seasons of the Italian Serie A were used to identify the effects of replacing a coach mid-season due to poor team performance. We used an instrumental variable approach to correlate coach turnover within a season with player productivity and found a very low positive impact of the coach change in the short term but a significant negative impact in the long term. Our findings are also relevant to the literature on management replacement in small-size firms.

Keywords: Research; Methods/Statistical; Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31
Date: 2019-10-17
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.294196

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