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Examining the impact of visibility on market efficiency: Lessons from movement in NFL betting lines
Journal of economics and finance, Vol.48, pp.263-279
06/2024
Web of Science ID: WOS:001120174700001
Abstract
In general, financial markets of limited attention or visibility are expected to exhibit more inefficient asset prices. Such markets thus require eventual, increased trading to resolve these inefficiencies. In this study, we consider this financial framework within the sports gambling market for National Football League (NFL) games. We consider whether NFL games garnering less public attention are more likely to see larger movements in their betting lines. We consider games with smaller television audiences, with kickoff times shared with other contests, and between teams with smaller fanbases, to be indicative of less visibility. To test our model, we collected betting line data for all regular and postseason NFL football games from 2007-2021. Based on a sample of 3,756 games, our findings indicate more frequent and larger line movements in games with indications of less widespread attention, and many of these results are statistically significant. Our conjecture is that such differences in line movement levels may derive from the limited resources of oddsmakers being disproportionately focused on games with the most visibility.
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- Title
- Examining the impact of visibility on market efficiency
- Publication Details
- Journal of economics and finance, Vol.48, pp.263-279
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Springer New York LLC; United States
- Number of pages
- 17
- Copyright
- © 2023, Academy of Economics and Finance
- Identifiers
- WOS:001120174700001; 99380489691106600
- Academic Unit
- Accounting and Finance; Business Administration; Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business
- Language
- English