Human capital estimation in professional football

Konstantin Polyakov and Liudmila Zhukova ()

Applied Econometrics, 2013, vol. 29, issue 1, 29-44

Abstract: Authors investigate forming of transfer fee of professional football players. They analyze influence on its value factors, which define «human capital» of athlete, such as age, professional achievements and «level of publicity», i.e. his ability to attract spectators’ attention. It have been determined that strength of influence of professional achievements diminishes with age and taking into account «level of publicity» significantly rise quality of transfer fee modeling.

Keywords: human capital; transfer fee; linear regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C01 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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