Inside the NBA Bubble: How Black Players Performed Better without Fans

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Inside the NBA Bubble : How Black Players Performed Better without Fans. / Caselli, Mauro; Falco, Paolo; Somekh, Babak.

2022.

Publikation: Working paper › Forskning

Harvard

Caselli, M, Falco, P & Somekh, B 2022 'Inside the NBA Bubble: How Black Players Performed Better without Fans'. <https://ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/glodps/1178.html>

APA

Caselli, M., Falco, P., & Somekh, B. (2022). Inside the NBA Bubble: How Black Players Performed Better without Fans. https://ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/glodps/1178.html

Vancouver

Caselli M, Falco P, Somekh B. Inside the NBA Bubble: How Black Players Performed Better without Fans. 2022.

Author

Caselli, Mauro ; Falco, Paolo ; Somekh, Babak. / Inside the NBA Bubble : How Black Players Performed Better without Fans. 2022.

Bibtex

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