Racers’ attractive looks, popularity, and performance: how do speedboat racers react to fans’ expectations?

Using a large sample of individual-level records in Japan speedboat racing where men and women racers participate, we investigated how racers’ performance meets fans’ pre-race expectations. To control for endogeneity bias, we measured the order of racers’ attractiveness randomly determined in each r...

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Published in:Japanese economic review (Oxford, England) England), 2022, Vol.73 (4), p.597-623
Main Authors: Yamamura, Eiji, Hayashi, Ryohei, Tsutsui, Yoshiro, Ohtake, Fumio
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