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The Cost of COVID-19 to Pro Sports in the USA
Reigning NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks. Photo by: Keith Allison (Flickr). A $100 billion a year industry, professional sports is just one of many businesses in the ... -
Sports Pork
Oink, oink. Sports pork is adequately represented in this list in my opinion: On Monday, the U.S. Conference of Mayors went to Capitol Hill to ask for a handout, or ... -
Sports Law & Economics
Much of the scholarly work of sports economists would be reasonably categorised as "law & economics" type work. So recently, when our friends at the American Bar Association asked me ... -
More news on the sports economy watch
Sunil Gulati, Columbia economist and president of US Soccer: Look, economic downturns have negative effects, full stop. For people to say sports is somehow recession proof, that's basically nonsense. Gong!! ... -
The BCS and bowl matchups
Al Roth's foray into sports economics, "Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls" is pretty interesting (pdf). Roth is perhaps the foremost economist interested in the process ... -
Call for Papers - Missouri Valley Economics Association Conference in Kansas City - Extended Deadline
Michael Davis and I are arranging North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) – affiliated sports economics sessions for the 2015 Missouri Valley Economic Association (MVEA) conference in Kansas City, Mo. ... -
A Guide to the British Air Rifle Championships
Sharpshooters from across the length and breadth of the UK make the annual pilgrimage to the British Air Rifle Championships to test their skills against the best competition. It is ... -
Call for Papers for Missouri Valley Economics Association
Michael Davis of Missouri University of Science and Technology and I are arranging North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE) - affiliated sports economics sessions at the Missouri Valley Economic Association ... -
The Unconventional Marketing Techniques of Online Betting
The online betting industry has slowly emerged as one of the most successful business segments of the virtual world. It is for good reasons as well, the online betting sector ... -
The Impact Of Managerial Change On Performance: The Role Of Team Heterogeneity
“When a key responsibility of a manager is to allocate more or less attractive tasks, subordinates have an incentive to work hard and demonstrate their talents. As a new manager ... -
Two good reads
Gregg Bell on the Sonics trial. The Sonics are making the argument that Seattle pols have been playing dirty pool, which would not be surprising. As I've said before, there ... -
An Application of the Backwards Bending Supply Curve
The law of supply says that when the price of a good rises, all else equal, the quantity supplied of that good also rises. Applied to labor markets, the more ...
