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2023 European Sport Economics Association (ESEA) Conference

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The 9th Annual Sports Economics Workshop will be held as part of the 14th European Sport Economics Association (ESEA) Conference at University College Cork, Ireland from the 23rd to the 25th of August 2023.

The ESEA Conference is the annual gathering of the European Sport Economics Association. This is a scientific association founded in 2010 that pursues the goal of promoting communications between scientists and practitioners working in the field of sports economics.

The conference is a three-day event hosted by the Centre for Sports Economics and Law (CSEL) at UCC and will take place on the main campus. Prior to the event, a PhD student workshop will take place from the 21st of August to the morning of the 23rd. This will be delivered by international scholars in sports economics. The Conference Gala Dinner will be held on the Thursday evening, 24th August.

Submissions are welcome relating to any area of sports economics including theoretical, empirical and conceptual papers. Please submit an extended abstract including introduction, theoretical background, methods and major finding via the submission portal that can be found on the conference website: www.cubsucc.com/esea-call-for-papers.

Abstract submission deadline: 31st March 2023.
Notification of acceptance: 30th April 2023

Full information about Cork 2023 can be found on the event website: www.cubsucc.com/esea-home/

If you have any questions in relation to the conference, please feel free to contact a member of the local organising committee.

Local Organising Committee: Dr David Butler (CSEL, UCC), Dr Robert Butler (CSEL, UCC), Pat Massey (Compecon)

2022 Sportseconomics.org Workshop

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2021 Sportseconomics.org Workshop

The 7th annual workshop on sport and economics was held online on Friday 21st of May 2021.

The full programme is below.
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2020 Sportseconomics.org Workshop

Unfortunately due the COVID 19 public health crisis, the 6th annual workshop on sport and economics was held online in conjunction with ROSES on the 22nd of May 2020.

2019 Sportseconomics.org Workshop

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The 5th annual workshop on sport and economics took place on Friday 24th of May 2019 at University College Cork.

The theme of the event was demand issues in sport. The full schedule is below. 

This event was funded by the Centre for Sports Economics and Law, Cork University Business School and the College of Business and Law at University College Cork.
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2018 Sportseconomics.org Workshop

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The 4th sportseconomics.org workshop on sport and economics, funded by the Centre for Analysis and Risk, the Centre for Sports Economics and Law and Cork University Business School will be held on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th of July 2018 at University College Cork.

The theme of these year's event is sports betting and a selection of academic papers in the area will be presented over the two days. 

​General Information

Betting on sports is an enormously popular activity, which earns significant revenues, enhances many fans’ sense of emotional involvement with sports, and, on the downside, causes substantial welfare loss to people who gamble recklessly or addictively. For the economist interested in people’s preferences over risk, and the interaction of these preferences with their beliefs about probabilities, sports betting provides a field setting almost ideally designed for supporting rich inferences. Policy makers and regulators who have responsibilities associated with sports, leisure, and gambling can gain crucial insights into, and predictive leverage over, responses to changes in odds and incentives through observations of naturally occurring sports betting, as well as through economists’ laboratory and field experiments with punters. The CEAR workshop on Sports Betting brings together both researchers who specialize in the economics of sport, and theoretical and experimental risk specialists who use sports betting contexts as environments for establishing more general insights into risky choice.

Conference Program

Monday July 23

8:55 – 9:15         Coffee
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9:15 – 9:45         Launch of the UCC Centre for Sports Economics and Law
9:45 – 10:00       Workshop welcome and Background on CEAR
10:00 – 11:00     Filippos Papakonstantinou: History-dependent risk preferences: Evidence from individual choices and implications for the disposition 
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11:00 – 11:15     Tea / coffee

11:15 – 12:15     Angie Andrikogiannopoulou: Heterogeneity in risk preferences: Evidence from a real-world betting market
12:15 – 1:15      Glenn Harrison & Eberhard Feess: Welfare Evaluation of Sports Betting Conditioned on Elicited Risk Preferences and Subjective Beliefs

1:15 – 2:30          Lunch

2:30 – 3:30          Sylvan Herskowitz: Gambling, Saving, and Lumpy Liquidity Needs
3:30 – 4:30          David Forrest: Participation in, and rates of return from, betting: The role of IQ

Tuesday July 24

9:30 – 10:30       Raymond Sauer: Estimates of Player Value Through the Lens of Sports Betting Markets
10:30 – 11:30     Rob Simmons: Betting Markets, Outcome Uncertainty and Competitive Balance in Sports: What Have We Learned?

11:30 – 11:45     Coffee/tea

11:45 – 12:45     Brad Humphreys: A Simple Test of Semi-Strong Form Market Efficiency Using US College Sports Betting Data

12:45 – 2:00        Lunch

2:00 – 3:00          Alasdair Brown: The Use of Framing Manipulations By Victorian Bookmakers
3:00 – 4:00          David Butler, Robbie Butler and Justin Doran: Turf Accountancy - A Spatial Analysis of Bookmakers
4:00 - 4:05           Close 

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2017 Sportseconomics.org Workshop

The 3rd sportseconomics.org Workshop on sport and economics, funded by the Cork University Business School, was held on Friday 21st of July 2017 at University College Cork.

This event was kindly funded by Cork University Business School .If you have any questions about the event or require further details please direct them to sportseconomics2013@gmail.com.

9.45  Registration
9.55  Opening Address - Thia Hennessy (Dean Cork University Business School, University College Cork)

10.00  Session  1 – Cavanagh Pharmacy Building LG51 
Joel Maxcy (Drexel University) - Uncertainty of Outcome and Grand Tour Cycling  
Babatunde Buraimo (University of Liverpool), Rob Simmons (Lancaster   University) and Stefan Szymanski (University of Michigan).- Regional Development in Interwar England through Football Statistics  
Robbie Butler (University College Cork), Liam Lenten (La Trobe University) and Evidence from the ‘Field’   Pat Massey (Compecon). - Bonus Incentives and Team-Effort Levels in European Cup Rugby:   
 
11.15  Refreshments

11.45  Session  2 – Cavanagh Pharmacy Building LG51 Roundtable Discussion – The Current and Future Direction of Sports Research in Ireland     
Discussants:  Elish Kelly (Senior Research Officer - Economic and Social Research Institute), Sean Lucey (Business School Research Manager - University College Cork), Peter Smyth (Director of Research - Sport Ireland) 

13.00  Lunch

14.00   Session 3  – Council Room, North Wing
 Keynote Address: Bernd Frick - Conquering the Pitch: The Economics of Soccer

3.30  Closing Address

Organising Committee: David Butler, Robbie Butler and John Eakins.

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2016 Sportseconomics.org Workshop

The 2nd sportseconomics.org Workshop was held on Friday 22nd of July 2016 at University College Cork in the Cavanagh Pharmacy Building.

This event was kindly funded by the Irish Research Council Government of Ireland “New Foundations” Scheme. If you have any questions about the event or require further details please direct them to sportseconomics2013@gmail.com.                                                                             
9.45  Registration
9.55  Opening Address

10.00  Session  1 
Declan Jordan - Power and place – the capital city effect and performance in European leagues from 1992 to 2015.   
Fionn Fitzgerald - How important are physiological, anthropometric and psychological measures for talent identification in Gaelic football?
Robert Simmons - Special Ones? The Effect of Head Coaches on Football Team Performance.  
    
11.15  Refreshments

11.45  Session  2             
Paul Downward  -‘No man is an island entire of itself.’  The hidden effect of peers on sport and physical activity.
Pat Massey - Measuring Efficiency of the Republic of Ireland International Football Team: A Production Frontier Approach.    
John Considine - Radical Competition Structure Change and Competitive Balance. 
   
13.00  Lunch

14.15  Keynote Speech: Professor Rodney Fort - ‘The Future of Sports Economics’

15.15  Roundtable Discussion: “Coaching for Participation or Elite Development – A Challenge for Instructors?”  
Discussants: Elish Kelly (ESRI), Greg Yelverton (FAI), John Considine (UCC) & Paul Downward (Loughborough)

16.00   Closing Address

Organising Committee: David Butler, Robbie Butler, John Eakins​

2015 Sportseconomics.org Workshop

Details on the 2015 event are below:

​The 1st sportseconomics.org workshop on the economics of sport will be held on Friday 17th of July 2015 in University College Cork, Ireland. Details on the content are below.

11.50 – Opening Address. Dr Robbie Butler (University College Cork)

12.00 – Towards a Model of Player Assessment and Development in Professional Football. Dr Seamus Kelly (University College Dublin)

12.30 – Keeping Them in the Game: Taking Up and Dropping Out of Sport in Ireland. Dr Elish Kelly (ESRI)

13.00 – Migration Patterns in European Football: 1992-2015. David Butler (University College Cork)

13.30 – Lunch

14.45 Keynote Address – Contract Duration and Player Performance in Italian Football. Prof Rob Simmons (University of Lancaster)

15.45 Close

Organising Committee: David Butler, Robbie Butler, John Eakins

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