Testing the Efficiency of the NFL Point Spread Betting Market

This paper examines the efficiency of pricing in the NFL point spread betting market, as hypothesized by the Efficient Market Hypothesis, through both statistical and economic tests. This market provides a simpler framework to test such economic hypotheses than conventional financial markets. Using...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spinosa, Charles L
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2014
Subjects:
NFL
Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/986
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2102&context=cmc_theses