PENALTY KICKS IN SOCCER: AN ALTERNATIVE METHODOLOGY FOR TESTING (By German Coloma)

[Román Culebro Martínez]

This paper uses the model Chiappori-Levitt- Groseclose (2002) to test for mixed-strategy Nash equilibria in a game between a kicker and a goalkeeper, in a situation of a soccer penalty kick. The main contribution of this paper is to develop an alternative testing methodology, based on the use of a simultaneous-equation regression approach that directly tests the equilibrium conditions. Using the same date than Chiappori, Levitt and Groseclose we find similar results than them, and we are also able to separately analyze the behavior of differents types of players (classified according to the foot that they use to kick the ball, and to the strategies that they choose to mix)

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