Idræt er mere end gymnastik og sport

The wisdom of ignorant crowds: Predicting sport outcomes by mere recognition

The collective recognition heuristic is a simple forecasting heuristic that bets on the fact that people’s recognition knowledge of names is a proxy for their competitiveness: In sports, it predicts that the better-known team or player wins a game. We present two studies on the predictive power of recognition in forecasting soccer games (World Cup 2006 and UEFA Euro 2008) and analyze previously...

Optimal Policy in OG Models

In the present paper general stationary overlapping generations economies with many commodities in every period and many different consumers in every generation are considered. A government maximizes a utilitarian social welfare function, which is the sum of weighted averages of utilities for generations, through fiscal policy, i.e., monetary transfers and taxes. Situations both with and withou...

Placebo. Historie, biologi og effekt

Since 1950 or so, placebos and their effect have generated a considerable interest in certain medical communities, in particular among psychiatrists and the designers of clinical trials, yet the only significant external study of this phenomenon to appear has been Howard Brody's doctoral investigation, Placebos and the philosophy ofmedicine, published in 1980. In 1997, however, three book-lengt...

A survey on implementation in Denmark and presentation of a local model

Danish) Hjerterehabilitering anbefales i dag som en del af den samlede efterbehandling til patienter, der lever med iskæmisk hjertesygdom med henblik på at forbedre patienternes livskvalitet, standse sygdomsudviklingen og reducere dødeligheden. Denne PhD-afhandling om hospitalsbaseret hjerterehabilitering undersøger, i hvor høj grad hjerterehabilitering er implementeret på sygehuse i Danmark, o...

Does the biomedical revolution spell the end of sport?