A matter of life and death: population mortality and football results

Over the Moon or Sick as a Parrot: The Effects of Football Results on a Club's Share Price

“…Berument and Yucel (2005) found that when Fenerbahce won a game in a European competition, the growth rate of Turkish industrial output increased, while Berument, Ceylan and Gozpinar (2006) found that a win by Besiktas in European competition led to a rise in the Turkish stock market. Football results have also been shown to influence the medical, social and political behaviour of supporters (Carroll et al, 2002, Kaplanski and Levy, 2008, Kirkup, 2003, Wilbert-Lampen, 2008, Witte et al, 2000. This raises the possibility that results may affect the club's share price indirectly via non-economic routes, as well as by a direct effect on the club's cash flows.…”

National well-being and international sports events

“…From another perspective, recent medical research suggests that people care about sports events; the latter having an impact on individual psychology and subsequently on health. For example, it has been shown that occurrences of myocardial infarctions are significantly higher following a stressful sports event (Witte et al, 2000;Carroll et al, 2002;Kirkup and Merrick, 2003;Wilbert-Lampen et al, 2008). At the other extreme, Fernquist (2000) provides evidence that better team performance is associated with lower suicide and homicide rates.…”

Möglichkeit eines kumulativen Triggereffektes hinsichtlich der Auslösung von akuten Koronarsyndromen bei Zuschauern von Fußballspielen?

“…So triggering is basically a matter of physiological reactions to impulses and extern stimuli from the outside world. Emotional stress and excitement associated with watching soccer matches has been suggested to act as an external trigger for the onset of acute coronary syndromes (ACS), though this has been disputed by other studies that find the relationship, if any, between the two negligible [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”