دورية أكاديمية
The efficiency of top agents: An analysis through service strategy in tennis
| العنوان: | The efficiency of top agents: An analysis through service strategy in tennis |
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| المؤلفون: | Klaassen, Franc J.G.M., Magnus, Jan R. |
| المصدر: | Journal of Econometrics, 148, 1, 72-85 |
| بيانات النشر: | NLD, 2009. |
| سنة النشر: | 2009 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Wirtschaft, Economics, Inefficiency, Frontier, Optimal strategy, Tennis, Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| الوصف: | We consider the question whether top tennis players in a top tournament (Wimbledon) employ an optimal (efficient) service strategy. While we show that top players do not, in general, follow an optimal strategy, our principal result is that the estimated inefficiencies are not large: the inefficiency regarding winning a point on service is on average 1.1% for men and 2.0% for women, implying that–by adopting an efficient service strategy–players can (on average) increase the probability of winning a match by 2.4%-points for men and 3.2%-points for women. While the inefficiencies may seem small, the financial consequences for the efficient player at Wimbledon can be substantial: the expected paycheck could rise by 18.7% for men and even by 32.8% for women. We use these findings to shed some light on the question of whether economic agents are successful optimizers. |
| Original Identifier: | urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-212521 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | journal article Zeitschriftenartikel |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jeconom.2008.09.036 |
| الوصول الحر: | http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/21252Test |
| حقوق: | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsgso.21252 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jeconom.2008.09.036 |
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