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CIEH Workshop: Euro 2016, Economics and Football
June 10, 2016
Sport, and football in particular, is big business. Local football clubs are institutions central to their communities, even the clubs that compete across Europe in the most lucrative competitions. Football provides reasons for people of all ages and all walks of life to get together, be it to kick a ball around or to watch others kicking a ball around. The 2016 European Championships in France will be a boon for retailers of all types this summer, and indeed England will be cheered on by our firms more for the revenue generating potential of a successful campaign than necessarily for the sporting success. Either way, football is big business not least for economists: it provides opportunities to test economic theories, but also contexts in which to apply economic reasoning and impact outcomes.
Programme
09:30 Registration
10:00 Introductory Remarks
10:15 James Reade (Reading) “Home advantage in International football”
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Rob Simmons (Lancaster) “The Special Ones: Do Managers Make a Difference?”
Jan Hoecker (Wuerzburg) “Asymmetric Employer Learning about Talent in Professional Soccer”
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Thomas Peeters (Erasmus) “Entry, career dynamics and worker quality in the market for talent”
Barry Reilly (Sussex) “What a difference a day makes: the impact of fixture scheduling on the demand for Irish soccer”
16:00 Coffee
16:30 Alex Bryson (UCL) “What happens when economic theory meets sports data?”
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Opening Match France v Romania