Professor Rob Simmons will make a presentation on "Betting anomalies: Evidence from pari-mutuel and fixed odds betting markets" to the School of Economics, UCC, visiting speakers seminar. The presentation is on Friday, February 7th, at 2pm in Room 2.15 in Aras na Laoi, Western Road.
Dr Simmons has an international reputation as a sports economist. He has published pioneering papers on attendance demand in football using a travel cost methodology, on football transfer markets using a sample selection model and on salary determination in Italian football using a rarely published data set. He is currently working on several topics in sports economics, including a new theoretical model of sports league behaviour, economic analysis of sports broadcasting, the labour market for players in the US National Football League and further analysis of earnings in Italian football.
Dr Simmons has an international reputation as a sports economist. He has published pioneering papers on attendance demand in football using a travel cost methodology, on football transfer markets using a sample selection model and on salary determination in Italian football using a rarely published data set. He is currently working on several topics in sports economics, including a new theoretical model of sports league behaviour, economic analysis of sports broadcasting, the labour market for players in the US National Football League and further analysis of earnings in Italian football.
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