Economics Research

ROSES: Dave Berri, Southern Utah University
2022-09-30 14:30 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Microsoft Teams
“Gender Bias in Perceived Quality. An Experiment with Elite Soccer Performance”

External Seminar: Rob Taylor
2022-10-05 14:30 - 15:45

ROSES: Gergely Csurilla, Hungarian University of Sports Science
2022-10-07 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
“Uncertainty or luck? Unexplainability in the results of Olympic sports”

External Seminar: Kalyan Kameshwara
2022-10-12 14:30 - 15:45

ROSES: Thomas Warrener, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
2022-10-14 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
“The Relationship Between Financial and Sporting Performance of Professional Football Clubs: Empirical Evidence from Brazilian Football”

External Seminar: Zhenya Liu
2022-10-19 14:30 - 15:45

ROSES: Johannes Kasinger, Goethe University Frankfurt
2022-10-21 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
“Shrouding and the incidence of sin taxes in online betting markets”

ROSES: Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, University of Münster
2022-10-28 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
“Skewness Preference: Evidence from Online Poker”

External Seminar: Beata Javorcik
2022-11-02 14:30 - 15:45

ROSES: Sandro Heiniger, University of St. Gallen
2022-11-04 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
“A general framework to quantify the event importance in multi-event contests”

External Seminar: Wolfgang Luhan
2022-11-09 14:30 - 15:45

ROSES: Jean-Louis Foulley, IMAG, Université de Montpellier
2022-11-11 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
“How to adjust probability forecasts of football match outcomes in one-legged knock out tournaments with an application to the FIFA World Cup”

External Seminar: Daniel Schaefer
2022-11-16 14:30 - 15:45

ROSES: Pete Groothuis, Appalacian State University
2022-11-18 14:30 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
“Positional Segregation and Career Length in Major League Baseball in the 1990s”

External Seminar: Bouke Klein Teeselink
2022-11-23 14:00 - 15:45

External Seminar: Sonia Fegernas
2022-12-07 14:30 - 15:45

2nd Reading Football Economics Workshop
2022-12-13 - 2022-12-14
On December 13 and 14 2022, the Sport Cluster of the Department of Economics at the University of Reading will host the 2nd Reading Football Economics Workshop.
We invite submissions for presentation from authors of work that uses football (however liberally defined), and has some economic content or motivation (again, the definition will be liberal). Please submit abstracts here (link).
We are very pleased that Christina Philippou of the University of Portsmouth, Jorge Tovar of Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia, and Justus Haucap of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf will be our keynote speakers.
This two day event will take place on the two days of the FIFA Men’s World Cup Semi Finals, and social events will involve viewing those two events. We anticipate watching the two games in The Dairy, which serves food and good beer options at the heart of our London Road Campus.
Draft Schedule

Tuesday December 13

G01, Building L22, London Road Campus, University of Reading

10:30-11:00
Coffee

11:00-12:30
Keynote 1
Jorge Tovar
On Fairness, Justice, and VAR

12:30-13:30
Lunch

13:30-14:00
Session 1
Dennis Coates
Visiting Team Fans and Attendance

14:00-14:30

Jessica Hargreaves
Is the home advantage constant? Investigating soccer’s home advantage
using varying coefficient models

14:30-15:00

Thadeu Gasparetto
Multicultural Teams: Does National Diversity Impact Performance in
Professional Football? (Teams)

15:00-15:30

Sebastian Otten
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Evidence from Fantasy League Soccer

15:30-16:00
Coffee

16:00-16:30
Session 2
Johan Rewilak
The perversity of mild failure: Evidence from the UEFA Champions League

16:30-17:00

Maxence Franceschi
What’s a football player worth? A conceptualisation on football players’ value.

18:00-c.21:30
Dinner* and World Cup Semi Final 1

The Dairy, London Road Campus

Wednesday December 14

G01, Building L22, London Road Campus, University of Reading

10:30-11:00
Coffee

11:00-12:30
Keynote 2
Christina Philippou
Finances, governance, and the search for practical solutions

12:30-13:30
Lunch

14:00-14:30
Session 3
Robert Simmons
Determinants of goalkeeper salaries (Teams)

14:30-15:00

Maxence Franceschi
Positional dominance of football intermediaries

15:00-15:30

Matthew Yeo
On the quality of sporting facilities and a range of economic and social outcomes

15:30-16:00

James Reade
Has the World Cup impacted domestic football attendances?

16:00-16:30
Coffee

16:30-18:00
Keynote 3
Justus Haucap
Title TBC

18:00-c.21:30
Dinner* and World Cup Semi Final 2

The Dairy, London Road Campus

*dinner at participants’ own expense, except for keynote speakers

Important Dates
Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/yAXAP7kLKw.
Conference Location: London Road Campus, University of Reading.
Travel: The University of Reading’s London Road Campus is a 15 minute walk from Reading railway station, which is well linked to from London’s Paddington Station (just under 30 minutes and multiple services each hour), London’s Heathrow Airport via RailAir Bus (about 45 minutes, frequent services 24-7), and also London’s Gatwick Airport via a direct train (about 90 minutes, hourly)
Accommodation: We recommend the following hotel options:

Cedars Reading (on our Whiteknights campus but limited availability).
Premier Inn Reading Central,
Hotel Ibis Styles,
Hotel Novotel Reading Centre,
Hotel Ibis Reading Centre,
Pentahotel Reading
Travelodge Reading Central.
For a more unique Reading experience, try The Great Expectations.

Apart from Cedars, all hotel options are in central Reading.
Questions: James Reade at j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk

External Seminar: Henrik Sievertsen
2023-01-11 14:30 - 15:45

External Seminar: Rob Simmons
2023-01-18 14:00 - 15:45

External Seminar: Stuart Baumann
2023-01-25 14:00 - 15:45

External Seminar: Ara Jo
2023-02-01 14:00 - 15:45

External Seminar: Sebastian Schmidt
2023-02-15 14:00 - 15:45

External Seminar: Seyhun Sakalli
2023-02-22 14:00 - 15:45

External Seminar: John Forth
2023-03-01 14:00 - 15:45

External Seminar: Ruijun Bu
2023-03-08 14:00 - 15:45

External Seminar: Surajeet Chakravarty
2023-03-15 14:00 - 15:45

External Seminar: Aris Syntetos
2023-03-22 14:00 - 15:45

CEIBH-GEAR-NIESR multidisciplinary workshop: "The Impact of Climate on the Economy"
2023-05-12 09:00 - 18:00 | HBS Seminar Room 108, Reading, RG6 6EL, United Kingdom
The multidisciplinary workshop on “The Impact of Climate on the Economy”, organised jointly by the Centre for Economic Institutions and Business History, the Group for Economics Analysis at Reading, both at the University of Reading, and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London, in support of the “Prosperity and Resilience” Research Strategy Theme of the University of Reading, will be held on 12 May 2023 at the University of Reading (as a hybrid event). To learn more and register for free attendance, please check the workshop website.

Symposium: New work on enclosure in Britain, c. 1700-1850
2023-05-26 10:30 - 16:00 | HBS Seminar Room G10
Symposium: New work on enclosure in Britain, c. 1700-1850
When: Friday, 26 May 2023, 10:30am-4pm (in-person only)
Where: Room G10, Henley Business School, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading
Attendance is free
Registration is required
Early registration is encouraged, as spaces are limited (please fill in the form below)
Deadline to register: Sunday, 21 May 2023
Summary
Enclosure is a fundamental process. It is both a simplification of property ownership and a reorganisation of the landscape. Most land in Britain – the uplands apart – has gone through some form of enclosure at some time but the date at which it took place, and the institutional forms that enclosure took, vary enormously from place to place.
Enclosure as a process has largely come to an end. Our understanding of the institutional and legal forms it took, the motives which drove enclosure and its consequences – actual and perceived – are far from perfect. At this meeting we present five papers which give a sense of the state of enclosure studies in Britain at this time and the challenges which remain for historians.
Programme
10.30 ​Coffee and registration
10.45​ Welcome (Professor Richard Hoyle)
11.00​ Paper One: The motives for parliamentary enclosure (Dr. David Brown)
11.45​ Paper Two: The surveys of enclosure of 1800-01 (Professor Richard Hoyle)
12.30​ Lunch
13.30 ​Paper Three: ‘The result never quite equalled the promise’: risk, reward, and reclamation on Exmoor, 1840-1897’ (Professor Henry French)
14.15​ Paper Four: Agrarian reform in a lowland Scottish barony: evolutionary or structural change? (Iain Kirkman)
15.00​ Paper Five: Encroachment: a form of illicit enclosure? (Professor Carl Griffin)
15.45 Concluding comments and discussion (Professor Mark Casson)

5th Reading Experimental and Behavioural Economics Workshop (REBEW)
2023-06-21 09:00 - 17:00
The Department of Economics at the University of Reading is pleased to continue the 5th Reading Experimental and Behavioural Economics Workshop in person this year. The workshop will be held at the University of Reading on Wednesday 21 June 2023.

This year, the keynote speaker is Professor Shakun Mago (University of Richmond),

and regular session speakers are:

Steven Bosworth (University of Reading)
Claudia Cerrone (City, University of London)
Josie Chen (National Taiwan University)
Helena Fornwagner (University of Exeter)
Joo Young Jeon (University of Reading)
George Mackerron (University of Sussex)
Anwesha Mukehrjee (University of Reading)
Abhijit Ramalingam (Appalachian State University)
Hong-il Yoo (Loughborough University)

Please find the details of the programme.
To join the workshop, please register here by 21 May 2023.
If you have any queries, please contact to organisers, Joo Young Jeon (j.jeon@reading.ac.uk) , Steven Bosworth (s.j.bosworth@reading.ac.uk) or Anwesha Mukehrjee (anwesha.mukherjee@reading.ac.uk).
