November 19, 2023

2:00 PM-3:45 PMCT
Allied – North American Association of Sports Economists
Organizer: E. Frank Stephenson, Berry College

Chair: Craig A. Depken, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Papers:
The Impact of NIL on College Football Recruiting Rankings
Joshua Pitts*, Kennesaw State University
Brent Evans, Georgia College & State University

The Effect of NIL on College Basketball Players’ Decision to Enter the NBA Draft
E. Frank Stephenson*, Berry College
Cole McDaniel, Berry College
Brian J. Meehan, Berry College

ROI on RBI: Market Returns on Baseball Cards
Craig A. Depken*, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Discussants:
E. Frank Stephenson, Berry College
Craig A. Depken, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Joshua Pitts, Kennesaw State University

November 19, 2023

4:00 PM-5:45 PMCT
Allied – North American Association of Sports Economists
Organizer: E. Frank Stephenson, Berry College

Chair: Dennis Coates, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Papers:
Hypothetical Bias in Willingness-to-Travel Questions with an Unexpected Event: Implications for the Valuation of Nonmarket Benefits of Amateur Sport Events
John C. Whitehead*, Appalachian State University
Pamela Wicker, Bielefeld University

The Fear of First Strike: Quantitative Theory of Delayed Punishments
Jacek Rothert*, United States Naval Academy
Diego Gebhardt, United States Naval Academy
Scott Kaplan, United States Naval Academy

Competition in the Provision of Recreational Services: For-Profit and Non-Profit Equestrian Providers
Dennis Coates*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Svenja Feiler, German Sport University Cologne
Pamela Wicker, Bielefeld University
Christoph Breuer, German Sport University Cologne

The Effects of Co-author Team Diversity on Citations of Sports Economics Publications
Pamela Wicker*, Bielefeld University
Katrin Scharfenkamp, Bielefeld University

Discussants:
Jacek Rothert, United States Naval Academy
Pamela Wicker, Bielefeld University
John C. Whitehead, Appalachian State University
Dennis Coates, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

November 18, 2023

10:00 AM-11:45 AMCT
Allied – North American Association of Sports Economists
Organizer: E. Frank Stephenson, Berry College

Chair: John Charles Bradbury, Kennesaw State University

Papers:
Who, When, and Why? Qualified Offers in Major League Baseball
Craig A. Depken*, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Steve Swidler, Lafayette College

The Impact of Socioeconomic Background on the Timing of Long-Term Contracts in Major League Baseball
Michael Sinkey*, University of West Georgia
Richard J. Paulsen, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Influences on Attendance of Visiting Team Fans
Dennis Craig Coates*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

The Novelty Effect Revisited
John Charles Bradbury*, Kennesaw State University

Discussants:
John Charles Bradbury, Kennesaw State University
Michael Sinkey, University of West Georgia
Craig A. Depken, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

A remembrance of Stefan Késenne from Jaume Garcia and Plácido Rodríguez

We met Stefan for the first time in Málaga, back in 2000, at a small conference organized by IASE. This was our first contact with the sports economics profession. Stefan was very helpful in providing comments on the paper we presented and he took great care on how the paper was evolved. He encouraged us to complete it and insisted on its submission for publication. It is obvious to us that without Stefan’s help and advice probably we would not have been working in sports economics since then.

But his help and advice has always been there. The well-established Gijon conference in sports economics very much owes to Stefan’s contribution. He enthusiastically joined us in the organization and he was decisive in convincing top sports economics researchers to attend the first conference back in 2006 when celebrating fifty years of the publication of the seminal paper by Simon Rottenberg. The success of that edition was very important for attracting the sports economics profession to attend the conference and we could say that today’s prestige of the conference is due to the invaluable contribution, help and dedication by Stefan.

He was an expert on analysing the behaviour of teams, leagues and, in particular, the type of objective functions they have: profit maximizers, utility maximizers, win maximizers. But his contribution to the field can be summarized in terms of his research. He was a profit maximizer because of the quality of his research. He was a utility maximizer in terms of how relevant his contributions have been to the field. He was a win maximizer because of the recognition in the profession for his contributions and, more importantly, for him as a person.

Stefan was a (very) intelligent person according to the classification of the individuals provided by Carlo Cipolla, a recognized economic historian. In his essay The basic laws of human stupidity, Cipolla defined individuals in terms of whether their actions are beneficial or not for them and beneficial or not for others. Stefan’s actions were beneficial for him, for his reputation, but his actions were beneficial for us all, not only because of what we learnt from his contributions but also because he was always there for you too. No doubt Stefan fitted perfectly into this category of intelligent people. We would say the category of good people.

Paraphrasing the words from the poem Self-portrait by a modernist Spanish poet, Antonio Machado, is a simple way of expressing what Stefan was for most of us:
“… and rather than someone well versed in his science (sports economics), Stefan was, to the word’s better meaning, a good man”.

We will always remember him as a good and intelligent person and … as a very good friend.

Jaume Garcia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Plácido Rodríguez, Universidad de Oviedo

NAASE is holding its 2nd Virtual Conference from June 28-30, 2021.

Program

Khazar University (Baku, Azerbaijan), New Economic School (Moscow, Russia) and Higher School of Economics (Russia) cordially invite you to submit your abstracts for presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Football Economics that will take place in Baku (Azerbaijan) on May 29-31, 2019 at the days of the UEFA Europa League final. The conference is aimed to highlight high-quality research of the football industry as well as to facilitate the cooperation between academics and practitioners.

The deadline for submitting an extended abstract (approximately 3 pages long) is March 15, 2019. Notification of acceptance will be sent by March 31, 2019. Extended abstract submission is through EasyChair. Please, click the link or type the following address in your browser: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=footec2019

The plenary talks will be delivered by Dennis Coates (University of Maryland, Baltimore County; HSE) and Ruud Koning (University of Groningen).

After the conference, a volume in a book series on Sports Economics is planned to be published by Springer (Ed. Dennis Coates). The volume will include full versions of papers presented at the conference. The submissions would be refereed much the same way as journal submissions are refereed, with no guarantee of acceptance into the volume. The deadline for submission of full version is June 15, 2019.

Social part of the conference will include the UEFA Europa League final.

For more information about the conference, please visit the website https://www.footballeconomics.ru/

We will be grateful for sharing the Call for abstracts (attached) with your colleagues.

On behalf of the Program committee,
Dmitry Dagaev
Higher School of Economics
Head of Laboratory of Sports Studies
https://www.hse.ru/staff/ddagaev