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Our objective in writing The Wages of Wins was to take to
a general audience material that we had previously published in academic
journals and presented at academic conferences. What follows is the article(s) that served
as the foundation for each chapter in the book. Chapter
One:
Games with Numbers Berri, David J. and Todd Jewell. (2004). “Wage Inequality
and Firm Performance: Examining a Natural Experiment from Professional
Basketball.” Chapter
Two:
Much Talking, Little Walking Schmidt,
Martin B. and David J. Berri.(2004).
“The Impact of Labor Strikes on Consumer Demand: An Application to
Professional Sports.” American
Economic Review,
94, n.1: March: 344-357. Schmidt,
Martin B. and David J. Berri. (2002). “The Impact
of the 1981 and 1994-95 Strikes on Major League Baseball Attendance: A
Time-Series Analysis.” Chapter
Three: Can
You Buy the Fan’s Love? Schmidt,
Martin B. and David J. Berri. (2002). “Competitive
Balance and Market Size in Major League Baseball: A
Response to Baseball’s Blue Ribbon Panel.” Review
of Industrial Organization, 21, n1; August: 41-54. Chapter
Four:
Baseball’s Competitive Balance Problem? Berri, David J., Stacey L. Brook, Aju
Fenn, Bernd Frick, and Roberto Vicente-Mayoral.
(2005). “The Short Supply of Tall People: Explaining Competitive Imbalance in
the National Basketball Association.” Journal
of Economics Issues,
v39, n4; (December): 1029-1041. Schmidt,
Martin B. and David J. Berri. (2003). “On the
Evolution of Competitive Balance: The Impact of an Increasing Global Search.”
Economic
Inquiry, 41,
n4; October: 692-704. Schmidt,
Martin B. and David J. Berri. (2001). “Competitive
Balance and Attendance: The Case of Major League Baseball.” Chapter
Five:
The NBA’s Competitive Balance Problem? Berri, David J., and Martin B.
Schmidt. (2006). “On the Road with the National Basketball Association’s Superstar Externality.” Journal
of Sports Economics,7,
n4; (November): 347-358 Berri, David J., Martin B. Schmidt, and Stacey L. Brook.(2004). “Stars At The Gate: The Impact of Star
Power on NBA Gate Revenues” Chapter
Six:
Shaq and Kobe Berri, David J. “A Simple Measure of Worker Productivity in
the National Basketball Association.” In The
Business of Sport, eds. Brad Humphreys and Dennis Howard, editors, 3
volumes, Westport, Conn.: Praeger. forthcoming in 2008. This paper reviews both the Wins Produced and Win
Score models (detailed in Chapters Six and Seven of The Wages of Wins, as
well as in eight pages of end notes in the book). A version of the Win Score (or Wins
Produced) model has been referenced in the following published or forthcoming papers: [Lee
and Berri (forthcoming), Berri
and Schmidt (2006), Berri and Krautmann
(2006), Berri and Eschker
(2005), and Berri, Brook, Fenn,
Frick, and Vicente-Mayoral (2005)] Additionally,
the following unpublished works also reference Win Score, Wins Produced, or a
variation: Price,
Joseph and Justin Wolfers. “Racial Discrimination
Among NBA Referees.” Presented at the 2007 Western Economic Association
meetings, Seattle, Washington: June, 2007. Berri, David J., Stacey L. Brook, and Aju
Fenn. “From College to the Pros: Predicting
the NBA Amateur Player Draft.” Presented at the Southern Economic
Association; Washington D.C.: November, 2005. Berri, David J. Michael Leeds, and Michael Mondello. “Is it the Teacher or the Students?
Understanding the Role of the Coach in the National Basketball Association.”
Presented by Berri and Mondello
at the Western Economic Association; San Francisco, California: July, 2005 Berri, David J. and Aju Fenn. “Is the Sports Media Color-blind?” Presented at the
Southern Economic Association; New Orleans, Louisiana: November, 2004. Chapter
Seven: Who
is the Best? Berri, David J., and Anthony Krautmann. (2006). "Shirking on the Court: Testing
for the Dis-Incentive Effects of Guaranteed Pay." Economic Inquiry, 44, n3; July: 536-546. Berri, David J. “Mixing the Princes
and the Paupers and Other Determinants of Worker Productivity in the National
Basketball Association.” Presented at the Western
Economic Association; San Francisco, California: July, 2001. Chapter
Eight:
A Few Chicago Stories Berri, David J. and Erick Eschker.
(2005). “Performance When It Counts? The Myth of the Prime-Time Performer in
the NBA. Journal
of Economics Issues,
v39, n3; (September): 798-807. Chapter
Nine:
How Are Quarterbacks Like Mutual Funds? Berri, David J.(2007).
“Back to Back Evaluation on the Gridiron.” In Statistical Thinking in
Sport, eds. James H. Albert and Ruud H. Koning, (pp. 235-256). Chapman & Hall/CRC: 235-256. Berri, David J. and Rob Simmons.
“Race and the Evaluation of Signal Callers in the National Football League. Presented at the Western Social Science Association;
Albuquerque, New Mexico: April, 2005. Chapter
Ten:
Scoring to Score Lee, Young Hoon and David J. Berri. “A Re-Examination of Production Functions and
Efficiency Estimates for the National Basketball Association.” Scottish
Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming. Berri, David J. (2005) “Economics and the National Basketball
Association: Surveying the Literature at the Tip-off.” Berri, David J., Stacey L. Brook,
and Martin B. Schmidt. (2007) “Does One Simply Need to Score to Score?” International
Journal of Sport Finance, 2, n4: (October). Berri, David J. and Martin B. Schmidt. (2002). “Instrumental
vs. Bounded Rationality: The Case of Major League Baseball and the National
Basketball Association.” |
