Do managerial skills matter? An analysis of the impact of managerial features on performance for the Italian football

Claudio Detotto and Dimitri Paolini

Working Paper CRENoS from Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia

Abstract: This paper studies the impact of a set of managerial features on performance in the top division of the Italian football league during seasons 2000/01-2009/10. Our set of coach characteristics includes indicators of skill, experience, innate features as well as empathy with the team. We find that some managerial features matter even when we control by club power and past results. Indeed, performance is positively correlated with the fact that the manager has experience abroad or has been a previous player of the team but negatively correlated with lack of previous managerial experience. Other features affect only some particular aspects of performance. In particular, Italian managers play a more defensive game in home matches while old managers are more defensive in away games. Also, changing a coach within the season has a negative impact on the defensive skill of the team in away matches.

Keywords: or in sports; bi-ordered probit model; coach dismissals; endogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 C35 L83 M11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Journal Article: Do managerial skills matter? An analysis of the impact of managerial features on performance for Italian football (2018)
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