Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2025-09-19
Number: 25-055/V
Author-Name: Jan C. van Ours
Author-Workplace-Name: Erasmus University Rotterdam 
Title: Good Vibrations: Outcome Bias in Consumer Demand
Abstract: Expectations about future events can be influenced by prior outcomes of similar events, even when those outcomes were partly determined by chance. When such randomness is overlooked in decision-making, outcome bias may arise. This paper investigates the presence of outcome bias in consumer demand for professional football, focusing specifically on stadium attendance in the top divisions of the "big five" European football leagues. The analysis reveals that stadium occupancy rates are influenced by the outcomes of previous matches, even when those outcomes do not accurately reflect the home team’s underlying performance quality. These findings suggest that consumer demand for stadium attendance exhibits outcome bias.
Classification-JEL: C20, L83, M12, Z20
Keywords: utcomebias, professionalfootball, stadiumattendance
File-URL: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/25055.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20250055