The importance of time in referee home bias due to social pressure: evidence from spanish football Picazo-Tadeo, Andrés J. González Gómez, Francisco José Guardiola, Jorge Social presure Crowd effect Referee home bias Sports economics The importance of time in referee home bias due to social pressure. Evidence from Spanish football Abstract: This paper analyses referee home bias due to social pressure with data from the matches played in the First Division of the Spanish football league between the 2002/03 and 2009/10 seasons. Finally, our main conclusion is that the time the referee has to make a decision does affect the final outcome; while there is no referee home bias when a free kick is awarded, in the case of booking players, when the referee has more time to make a decision, social pressure can influence the final outcome in favour of the home team. 2013-11-21T09:33:21Z 2013-11-21T09:33:21Z 2011 info:eu-repo/semantics/report Picazo-Tadeo, A.; González Goméz, F.; Guardiola, J. The importance of time in referee home bias due to social pressure: evidence from spanish football. Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales (2011). (FEG-WP; 3/11). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/29185] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/29185 eng FEG-WP;3/11 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Universidad de Granada. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales