Unraveling yields inefficient matchings: evidence from post-season college football bowls
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Unraveling yields inefficient matchings: evidence from post-season college football bowls
Many markets have “unraveled” and experienced inefficient, early, dispersed transactions, and subsequently developed institutions to delay transaction timing. However, it has previously proved difficult to measure and identify the resulting efficiency gains. Prior to 1992, college football teams were matched for post-season play up to several weeks before the end of the regular season. Since 19...
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عنوان ژورنال: The RAND Journal of Economics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0741-6261,1756-2171
DOI: 10.1111/j.0741-6261.2007.00121.x