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SUMMARY:ROSES Seminar by Michael Jetter (University of Western Australia)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 2:30pm UK time\, 9:30am Eastern United States Time\, 3:30pm Central European Time\, and 9:30pm in Perth\, Australia\, as we meet on Teams for the 139th Reading Online Sport Economics Seminar. \nTitle: “Peacefully Demobilizing Rebels: Identity\, Emotional Cues\, and the FARC” \nAbstract: In the early 2000s\, the Colombian government aired messages during games of the national football team\, urging FARC rebels to demobilize. We first study the strategy’s effectiveness\, leveraging game dates\, kick-off times\, and spatial-temporal variation in rain-induced signal strength in a municipality-day-level panel spanning 2003-2016. Over 1\,000 rebels demobilized because of family-themed (but not national-unity-themed) messages\, received during unexpected losses (i.e.\, negative emotional cues). We then model a rebel’s demobilization decision\, combining identity salience with their emotional state. Finally\, we corroborate the model’s predictions examining family- versus non-family-specific holidays and local climatic anomalies.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/economics/event/roses-seminar-michael-jetter-university-of-western-australia/
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ORGANIZER;CN="James%20Reade":MAILTO:j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:ROSES Seminar by Dmitry Dagaev (HSE University & NES)
DESCRIPTION:Our 140th Reading Online Sport Economics Seminar meets at 2:30pm UK time\, 9:30am Eastern United States Time\, 3:30pm Central European Time\, and on Teams. \nTitle: Compatriot bias in football: Are non-experts subjective? \nAbstract: The paper explores the phenomenon of compatriot bias in non-experts’ comments by utilizing data from the FIFA video game\, which incorporates crowd-sourced player ratings. We compare the sentiments expressed by compatriots and non-compatriots in the comments section\, approximating the nationality of commenters based on their IP addresses. According to our results\, compatriots had positive sentiment but for popular players it is lower compared to less popular. This suggests that the size of the compatriot bias depends on player popularity. We provide a theoretical background in the Hotteling-Downs framework to explain the latter effect. Results of this analysis helps to understand the reliability of crowd-sourced player skill estimates and uncover potential nationality-based favoritism among non-experts.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/economics/event/roses-seminar-by-dmitry-dagaev/
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ORGANIZER;CN="James%20Reade":MAILTO:j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk
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