Ganhando no grito: análise do impacto da pressão social nas decisões da arbitragem em partidas de futebol

Igor Viveiros and Henrique Rizzo
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Abstract: This works aims at understanding the role that social pressure plays in the decision making of referees in football matches. Like Garicano; Palacios-Huerta; Prendergast (2001) we try to understand how the social pressure exerted by the crowd in football matches affects referee’s decisions. In our work we use data from matches without audience due to sanitary measures imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our analysis is based on data consisting of matches from the national leagues of five European countries: England, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We proposed controls to consider the tactics and quality of the teams involved in the matches to better observe the impact of social pressure. We’ve observed, in agreement with the existing literature, that the lack of a crowd and, therefore, social pressure tends to make referees’ decision making more unbiased.

Keywords: Football; Social Pressure; COVID-19; Applied Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 L83 Z20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2022-09
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