Jakub Sindelar

Jakub Sindelar

Turin

University of Turin, Collegio Carlo Alberto

Ph.D. candidate

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dopingiaafantidopingbudgeteconomicscustomersexperimentgame theoryprisoner's dilemma
Published on Jun 09, 2016

World Cup of Blood Doping

In my previous lab note I have pinpointed the most extreme values one can find in the leaked IAAF database. Today, I will focus on nationalities. Since the database (anonymized for my research) con...

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Published on Jun 08, 2016

Blood doping in athletics 1

The famously leaked IAAF blood testing database (I own one copy with anonymized records for my doctoral research) offers some interesting insights into the otherwise hiddenpart of sport, into blood...

doping
iaaf
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Published on Jun 07, 2016

What is the optimal level of Doping? A note on the Economics of Anti-Doping

This short lab note is a part of my crowdfunding campaign for an experimental research on the deterrence of different anti-doping policies.My ideas in this piece on the economics of anti-doping may...

doping
antidoping
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Published on May 30, 2016

A change in the funding goal!

Dear backers,I have found an alternative financial source for my experiment (hurray!), therefore the goal of this crowdfunding was lowered to $1000, which is enough to cover all the necessary expen...

budget
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Published on May 16, 2016

Economics of doping 201

One of the most common beliefs among sport fans is that when everyone dopes the effect of doping cancels out, therefore doping does not necessarily lead to an unfair competition. Nowadays we know t...

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Published on May 07, 2016

Do customers cause ineffective anti-doping?!

In the previous note I have covered the elementary economics of doping. It defines the problem as a strategic game between 2 players (agents). My example have shown that using prohibited substances...

doping
economics
customers
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Published on May 03, 2016

Economics of Doping 101

In this short note Iwill show you that economics can be helpful in understanding doping in sport. Iwill start with a "textbook model" and in the following posts I will try to cover more complex cas...

experiment
doping
economics
game theory
prisoner's dilemma
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Reply to:BybabyBybaby
Thanks for question. This is a very general and simplistic model, just to give you the idea behind economics of doping. It is trying to capture the root of the problem. I will also write another lab notes that will cover more "real" situations with heterogenous agents etc.
May 09, 2016
Project: Why do athletes cheat? The behavioral experiment on doping.