Saturday 27 September 2008

Corruption in Italian soccer

Drawing on records from ‘Calciopoli’, a judicial inquiry into corruption in the Italian soccer league, Tito Boeri and Battista Severgnini have investigated what drives match rigging, including referees’ career concerns, competitive balance and media concentration. In this interview with Romesh Vaitilingam, from VoxEU.org, Severgnini discusses their findings.

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