| By: |
Seungwhan Chun (Department of Economics, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea);
Sang Soo Park (Department of Economics, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea) |
| Abstract: |
This paper investigates the existence of home advantage in the individual
winter sport skeleton and identifies two sources of advantage: support from
the crowd and familiarity with the track. In the Olympics and the World
Championships, home advantage leads to about a 0.854% improvement in
performance on average, of which 0.444%-points are due to crowd support and
0.410-points are due to familiarity. In the the development circuits (the
Intercontinental Cup, North American Cup, and European Cup), the crowd effect
is not as signifcant and the effect of familiarity is more dominant. Another
interesting nding is that speeds in the Olympics are faster than in the World
Championships on average, which may represent the motivational effect of the
Olympics, although we were not able to control for the quality of the tracks. |
| Keywords: |
Home advantage, familiarity, crowd support, skeleton, sledding sports, fixed effects |
| Date: |
2019 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iek:wpaper:1901&r=all |