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2017 Sports Economics Workshop

27/6/2017

 
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By Robbie Butler

The 3rd annual Sports Economics Workshop will be held on Friday 21st of July 2017 at University College Cork. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss and stimulate interdisciplinary research ideas from those working in the areas of economics, sport, coaching, public health, management, and related fields in Ireland and abroad.

Professor Bernd Frick (Paderborn University) will deliver the keynote address at 2.00pm in the North Wing Quadrangle Council Room. This lecture will be based on his new book, Conquering the Pitch – The Economics of Soccer.

Professor Frick will explore the development of soccer as the world’s most popular team sport and addresses competitive balance across a large number of leagues. The book provides a thorough understanding of the market for players, coaches and referees, as well as the demand for soccer on television, in stadiums and in the betting office.
Prior to the keynote, a morning session will be held from 10.00am to 11.30am in the Cavanagh Pharmacy Building where a series of technical papers will be presented with contributions from the sports of cycling, rugby and soccer. The full session is as follows:

• Uncertainty of Outcome and Grand Tour Cycling – Joel Maxcy (Drexel University)

• Regional Development in Interwar England through Football Statistics – Babatunde Buraimo (University of Liverpool), Rob Simmons (Lancaster) University) and Stefan Szymanski (University of Michigan).

• Bonus Incentives and Team-Effort Levels in European Cup Rugby: Evidence from the Field – Robbie Butler (University College Cork), Pat Massey (Compecon) and Liam Lenten (La Trobe University).

The morning session will be followed by a roundtable discussion from 11.45am to 1pm where the current and future direction of sports research in Ireland will be discussed. Discussants will include Peter Smyth (Director of Research – Sport Ireland), Elish Kelly (Senior Research Officer- Economic and Social Research Institute) and Sean Lucey (Business School Research Manager – University College Cork).

The workshop is free to attend and those interested should register at www.sportseconomics.org/workshop.
Organising Committee: David Butler, Robbie Butler and John Eakins.

This event is funded by Cork University Business School

Summer Break

8/6/2017

 
As always, we are taking our summer break. We'll be back on Monday 7th of August.

Don't forget our workshop is on Friday 21st of July in University College Cork. Details on how to register can be found in the above post and on the 'Workshop' page.

2017 Cork City Marathon

5/6/2017

 
By David Butler

​The Cork City Marathon took place yesterday. The male winner was Chris Mocko (U.S) with a time of 02.26.42. This was close to a six-minute improvement on last year’s winning time. The female winner was Jill Hodgins with a time of 2.48.17

As Seamus Coffey was not around UCC this year, Robbie Butler filled the void and organised our relay team entry. ‘Random Walk’ finished 69th out of 661 entries - inclusive of youth and mixed gender teams. We recorded a time of 3:33:50. This was 24 places above our finish last year (93rd out of 689 relay teams).

The winning relay time was 2:21:32. Our relay team included contributors to this website; Robbie Butler (UCC), John Eakins (UCC), Sean O’Connor (CSO) and Myself (UCC). Brendan McElroy (UCC) was the fifth member of our team.

This is the best time and finishing position Random Walk has recorded over the years. The distribution of finishing times for the 2017 and 2016 relay are below.
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2017 Relay
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2016 Relay

The Lions Roar - The Impact of Mega-Sport Events on Tourist Arrivals

2/6/2017

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By Robbie Butler

The British and Irish Lions begin their much anticipated tour of New Zealand this weekend. In total, the tourists will play ten matches during a five-week period, including three tests against World Champions New Zealand. One has to go back to 1971 to find the last, and only time the Lions won the series in New Zealand, with the All Blacks subsequently successful in 1977, 1983, 1993 and 2005. In fact, the last visit to New Zealand saw a whitewash victory for the hosts (3-0).

Success on the pitch is not the only benefit for New Zealand. A 2011 paper in Tourism Management by Johan Fourie and María Santana-Gallegob, entitled ​"The impact of mega-sport events on tourist arrivals" considers the impact of international visitors of six major sporting events. The six are  Summer and Winter Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, Rugby World Cup, Cricket World Cup and British/Irish Lions Tour over the period 1995–2006. The results provide interesting reading. 

The authors find ​"...on average, mega-sporting events increase predicted tourism by roughly 8% in the same year. There is, however, large disparities between the types of event; the Summer Olympics, FIFA World Cup and, to a lesser extent the Cricket World Cup and Lions Tour, all seem to have a significant positive impact on tourism...while the Rugby World Cup and the Winter Olympic Games have a negative impact on tourism, ceteris paribus" (Fourie and Santana-Gallegob, 2011: 1364-1367). 

Crowding out and timing are both cited as possible explanations for the latter two events with the authors suggesting that "This may be due to tourism displacement, but is probably more the result of the smaller nature of these events and because the events analysed here were held in countries with an already strong tourism demand" (Fourie and Santana-Gallegob, 2011: 1369).

They continue by saying that "the size of tourism crowding-out may depend on the season in which the event is hosted. Events held during peak season, on average, tend to show a decline in predicted tourism, while events held during the off-season attract significantly higher numbers than what is predicted" (Fourie and Santana-Gallegob, 2011: 1369).
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