World Cup Workshop

One-day workshop on the economics of football

To coincide with the opening of the 2018 Fifa World Cup in Russia, one of sport’s largest global events, we present a collection of research papers
presented by leading sports economists. These papers all either have a particular application to football or use football as a context in which to study
economic theories and behaviour in more detail.

Speakers:

Professor Stefan Szymanski (keynote) – Stephen J. Galetti Collegiate Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
Professor Adrian R Bell – Chair in the History of Finance and Head of ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading
Professor Alex Bryson – Chair of Quantitative Social Science, UCL
Dr Babatunde Buraimo – Senior Lecturer in Sports Management, University of Liverpool
Dr Adam Cox – Senior Lecturer in Economics and Finance, Portsmouth Business School
Prof Bernd Frick – Professor of Organizational and Media Economics, University of Paderborn