Thanks for the memories: baseball veterans’ end-of-career salaries

Performance, Salaries, and Contract Length: Empirical Evidence from German Soccer

“…Contrary to the findings reported by Horowitz and Zappe (1998) for baseball veterans, this suggests that nostalgia effects will be of minor importance only.…”

“…Although the result reported in these papers is surprisingly consistent-fixed-term contracts induced higher levels of performance-the independent variables are far from perfect. 5 Contrary to the findings reported by Horowitz and Zappe (1998) for baseball veterans, this suggests that nostalgia effects will be of minor importance only. 6 I am grateful to an anonymous referee for making this point because it has obvious implications for the empirical analysis presented below.…”

The influence of controllability on compensation: a view through data of Major League Baseball

“…Premium lure strategies are recommended to enhance hot talent subordinates' loyalty (Ou, 2004). For baseball players, loyalty is one of the determinants of players' salaries (Horowitz and Zappe, 1998). The number of turnovers in a player's career might have influence on his salary.…”

Recruiting talent in a global sports market: appraisals of soccer players' transfer fees

“…Researchers usually estimate the players' theoretical value by means of individual indicators of sport performance, along with variables related to certain characteristics of players and teams. This type of approach was applied to soccer too, such as in the works by Horowitz and Zappe (1998); Berri (1999) and Dobson and Gerrard (1999). Moreover, the first paper acknowledges that the literature generally accepts that players' rewards in sport labour markets are solely based on their sporting performance.…”