Psychological pressure in competitive environments: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment: Comment, Second Version

Martin Kocher, Marc Lenz and Matthias Sutter
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Marc Lenz: University of Cologne

No 15, University of East Anglia Applied and Financial Economics Working Paper Series from School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

Abstract: Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (APH, forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 soccer penalty shootouts from various seasons in ten different tournaments that teams kicking first win significantly more often than teams kicking second by a margin of 21 percentage points. Collecting data for 470 shootouts, including all of APH's shootouts, we cannot replicate their result. Teams kicking first win 53.4% of shootouts, which is not significantly different from the a priori expected 50%. Our finding implies that (1) APH's results are not generally robust; (2) using selective subsamples without a coherent criterion for data inclusion might lead to non-representative results.

Keywords: Tournament; first-mover advantage; psychological pressure; field experiment; soccer; penalty shootouts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-09-19
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