ROSES Sport Economics Research Seminars

Below is a list of the Reading Online Sport Economics Seminars (ROSES). All Seminars take place on Fridays at 2:30-4pm, UK time, on Microsoft Teams. Contact James Reade (j.j.reade@reading.ac.uk) for an invite.

Sessions:

2 October 2020 at 2:30pm – ‘On the Incidence of an Ad Valorem Tax: The adoption of VAT in the UK and cost pass through by English football clubs’ – Stefan Szymanski, University of Michigan

9 October 2020 at 2:30pm – ‘A Bright Spot for a Small League: Social Media Performance in a Football League without a COVID-19 Lockdown’ – Daniel Weimar, University of Duisburg-Essen

16 October 2020 at 2:30pm – ‘Uncertainty in Competitive Balance: A model-based approach’ – Dimitris Karlis, Athens University of Economics and Business

23 October 2020 at 2:30pm – ‘Reference Dependence and Monetary Incentives: Evidence from Major League Baseball’ – Reio Tanji, Osaka University

30 October 2020 at 2:30pm – ‘The Financial Impact of Financial Fair Play Regulation: Evidence from the English Premier League’ – Mobolaji Alabi, University of Reading

6 November 2020 at 2:30pm – ‘Broadcasting La Liga’ – Juan D. Moreno-Ternero, Universidad Pablo de Olavide

13 November 2020 at 2:30pm – ‘Beyond Ghost Games: The value of attendance with masking and social distancing in US professional sports’ – John Whitehead, Appalachian State University

20 November 2020 at 2:30pm – ‘Job Change and Productivity: The effect of high performance expectations’ – Petr Parshakov, Higher School of Economics

27 November 2020 at 2:30pm – ‘Special Ones? The effect of head coaches on football team performance’ – Alex Farnell, Lancaster University

4 December 2020 at 2:30pm – ‘Referee Bias and International Relations’ – Sofia Paklina, Higher School of Economics

11 December 2020 at 2:30pm – ‘England’s First Football Boom 1872-1914 and its Twenty-first Century Parallels’ – Roger Titford

18 December 2020 at 2:30pm – ‘Substitution Effects between International Soccer Telecasts’ – Georgios Nalbantis, University of Tübingen