Psychological pressure in competitive environments: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment ; comment

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Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than teams kicking second. Collecting data for the entire history of six major soccer competitions we cannot replicate their result. Teams kicking first win only 53.4% of 262 shootouts in our data, which is not significantly different from random. Our findings have two implications: (1) Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta's results are not generally robust. (2) Using specific subsamples without a coherent criterion for data selection might lead to non-representative findings.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4846

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Field Experiments
• Subject: Tournament ; first-mover advantage ; psychological pressure ; field experiment ; soccer ; penalty shootouts ; Extensives Spiel ; Stress ; Feldforschung ; Fußballsport

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kocher, Martin G. ; Lenz, Marc V. ; Sutter, Matthias
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36893
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET