The Autumn series of the Reading Online Sports Economics Seminars (ROSES) starts tomorrow! We have another set of talks to take us through to Christmas, and we'll meet each Friday at 2:30pm UK time.
The first talk tomorrow is by me, on home and away fans at football!
⚽️ Football economics: are the lower league clubs getting left behind? By @jjreade.bsky.social
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Thank you to @jjreade.bsky.social for hosting another successful ROSES seminar last week. In case you missed it, please find the link attached:
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Footballers taking penalty kicks are sometimes sacrificing the best shots to prioritise their credibility, suggests an award-winning study co-authored by James Reade @jjreade.bsky.social.
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March 21 Alex Krumer, Molde University College, “Religion, Football and Reconciliation. Evidence from Israel”
February 28 Tazio Panzani, University of Perugia, “How Fans React to Prices and Performance: Historical Evidence from Italian Serie A”
February 21 Scott R. Baker, Kellogg School of Management, “Gambling Away Stability: Sports Betting’s Impact on Vulnerable Households”
Here's the YouTube from @wagesofwins.bsky.social's talk yesterday on the gender wage gap in professional US basketball:
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We're shortly going ahead with this!
DM me if you want to join.
We then wrap up on Saturday afternoon with Oldham's crunch National League clash against Sutton United.
Discounts for students and #oafc season ticket holders, register now and join us next month!
The event is sponsored by Sports Economics Review, a journal published by Elsevier.
The event runs all of Feb 14, with our evening speaker being Avram Grant (former Chelsea and West Ham manager), and moderator is Daily Mail journalist and #oafc fan Mike Keegan.
On Saturday historian Tony Collins will talk about how Oldham became a football town.
Join us for what will be a fascinating day and a half of talks from a whole host of contributors - from Price of Football author and podcast host Kieran Maguire, Christina Philippou and Stefan Szymanski on football finance, to Jack Coles and David Sharpe on football analytics.
#oafc
Until Latics start posting here, I'll have to do it myself 😀
Registration is now open for a Football Finance and Analytics - Past, Present and Future Conference at Boundary Park, home of Oldham Athletic #oafc on February 14-15
www.oldhamathletic.co.uk/events/footb...
Very much looking forward to giving this paper at ROSES on February 7th. The talk will be recorded and posted on YouTube.
This will be focused entirely on the gender wage gap in the WNBA!
Thanks to @jjreade.bsky.social for hosting me virtually!
February 7 Dave Berri, Southern Utah University, “Exploring the Gender Wage Gap in a World of Exogenous Revenues. The Case of Professional Basketball” @wagesofwins.bsky.social
January 31 Jennifer Dorling, Bond University, “Mental Toughness in Sports People”
January 24 David Castells-Quintana, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, “Club football and economic dynamism: A regional analysis for Europe”
Note that January 20 is the Abstract submission deadline for the Second University of Maryland Baltimore County Sports Economics Conference. Submit paper titles and a 200-word abstract, with contact information, to Dennis Coates coates (at) umbc.edu.
January 17 is currently a free slot (a previous calendar conflict I had on this date has been resolved) - get in touch if you would like to present.
January 10 Rhys Murrian, Monash University, "Friends, Key Players and the Adoption and Use of Experience Goods”
The Reading Online Sport Economics Seminars return for 2025 tomorrow! Three months of top economics and sport on Teams each Friday at 2:30pm UK.
And, fwiw, I recognise I could be wrong! I know I'm not on the losses, but perhaps Tamworth don't care about touts.
I was very wrong about the prospect we might get a new owner, let alone one better than the last one, as bad as he was. I'm very pleased I was wrong on that, too!
Let's agree to differ? I believe touting to be an issue that matters here and would mean significant revenues going to touts rather than a tiny, loss-making NL club.
You don't, and that's fine.
We can both at least agree that it would be nice if ticket prices were lower?
I'm not saying it's impossible.
What I'm saying is that despite technology it remains an issue. So I suspect it's not that easy to solve.
And it's certainly not going to be National League Tamworth that solve it for a one off cup match.
Who enforces the non transferability of a ticket?
That's a lot easier said than done though...
Sorry, Victoria Park, doh.
Southend, Dagenham and Barnet most likely away winners (though Dagenham's pitiful form suggests otherwise).
Tightest match on paper is at the Victoria Ground. #oafc have to win if they are serious about pushing for promotion. And Hartlepool will think the same...
Happy New Year! This year, I'm going to fix the issue with Dagenham & Redbridge, but in the meantime, it's NYD in the National League.
One relative home banker happened already yesterday - Solihull beating Tamworth. Halifax, Wealdstone and FGR are the others today.
Toss up for #oafc at Hartlepool.
We have to agree to differ. Touting is a huge problem for the smaller Premier League teams and there's no way it's not an issue when a top PL team visits a NL team.
I don't like price hikes any more than you but I'd prefer loss-making Tamworth get the revenues not the touts.
