• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: INFORMATION AND EFFICIENCY: GOAL ARRIVAL IN SOCCER BETTING
  • Beteiligte: Croxson, Karen; Reade, J. James
  • Erschienen: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014
  • Erschienen in: The Economic Journal, 124 (2014) 575, Seite 62-91
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12033
  • ISSN: 0013-0133; 1468-0297
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  • Beschreibung: An efficient market incorporates news into prices immediately and fully. Tests for efficiency in financial markets have been undermined by information leakage. We test for efficiency in sports betting markets - real-world markets where news breaks remarkably cleanly. Applying a novel identification to high-frequency data, we investigate the reaction of prices to goals scored on the 'cusp' of half-time. This strategy allows us to separate the market's response to major news (a goal), from its reaction to the continual flow of minor game-time news. On our evidence, prices update swiftly and fully.