Summary
Sports economists apply economics to sports and use sport to understand more about economics. We consider a broad range of issues, including recent outputs relating to labour economics, financial economics, and forecasting.
People
- Academics at Reading:
- Doctoral researchers:
- Meshael Batarfi
- Philip Ramirez
- Adesola Sunmoni
- Matthew Yeo
Activities
- Current projects:
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- Scorecasting: Forecasting scorelines in football matches; Carl and James
- The efficiency of prediction (betting) markets and forecast evaluation; Carl, James, Philip and Shixuan
- Cricket: Extracting information from cricket scorecards to understand various issues and economic behaviour; Carl, Sarah and James
- Lessons from the market for football talent, incuding superstar wages; Carl and Adesola
- Institutions and sport: Investigating the extent to which institutional organisation affects sporting outcomes; Meshael and James.
- Recent publications:
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- “Causal effects of an absent crowd on performances and refereeing decisions during Covid-19” (Economics Letters, 2020)
- “Extreme wages, performance and superstars in a market for footballers” (Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2020)
- “Stadium attendance demand during the COVID-19 crisis: Early empirical evidence from Belarus” (Applied Economics Letters, 2020)
- “Demand for Public Events in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of European Football” (European Sport Management Quarterly, 2020)
- “Evaluating Strange Forecasts: The Curious Case of Football Match Scorelines” (Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2020)
- “Do high wage footballers play for high wage teams? The case of Major League Soccer” (International Journal of Sport Finance, 2020)
- “Betting markets for English Premier League results and scorelines: evaluating a simple forecasting model” (Economic Issues, 2020)
- “Going with your Gut: The (In)accuracy of Forecast Revisions in a Football Score Prediction Game” (Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2020)
- “Information, prices and efficiency in an online betting market” (Finance Research Letters, 2020)
- “The wisdom of amateur crowds: Evidence from an online community of sports tipsters” (European Journal of Operational Research, 2019)
- Forthcoming events:
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- March-December 2020, Reading Online Sport Economics Seminars (ROSES). Programme
- July 2020 6th HSE-NES-Reading Football and Finance Conference in St Petersburg
- July 2021 7th HSE-NES-Reading Football and Finance Conference in Reading
- Past events