Pawlowski, T. and Ramirez, P. and Rambaccussing, D. and Reade, J. and Rossi, Giambattista (2024) Exploring entertainment utility from football games. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 223 , pp. 185-198. ISSN 0167‐2681.
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Abstract
Previous research exploring the role of belief dynamics for consumers in the entertainment industry has largely ignored the fact that emotional reactions are a function of the content and a consumer’s disposition towards certain participants involved in an event. By analyzing 19m tweets in combination with in-play information for 380 football matches played in the English Premier League we contribute to the literature in three ways. First, we present a setting for testing how belief dynamics drive behavior which is characterized by several desireable features for empirical research. Second, we present an approach for detecting fans and haters of a club as well as neutrals via sentiment revealed in Tweets. Third, by looking at behavioral responses to the temporal resolution of uncertainty during a game, we offer a fine-grained empirical test for the popular uncertainty-of-outcome hypothesis in sports.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Birkbeck Sport Business Centre |
| Depositing User: | Giambattista Rossi |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2024 13:58 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2025 14:23 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/53438 |
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