Contributors

Babatunde Buraimo is Senior Lecturer in the Management School at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. He has a PhD in Economics from Lancaster University. Babatunde’s main research interests are economic and statistical analyses of sports and he has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a number of edited contribu- tions in major volumes on the subject. Babatunde is currently working on a number of themes that involve the application of econometric analysis. These include racial discrimination in sport, managerial contribution to organizational success, the economics of broadcast rights and television audience ratings, and labour market issues in professional team sports. Xiaogang Che is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Durham University Business School, United Kingdom. His research interests are applied microeconomic theory, applied game theory, auctions and contest. He has published in several scientific journals such as American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Mathematical Social Sciences, Economics Letters and Review of Industrial Organizations. Stephen Dobson is Professor of Economics at Hull University Business School, United Kingdom. He is an expert in sports economics and his other research interests include industrial organization and the economics of developing countries. He has recent publications in Theoretical Economics Letters, World Development, Economics Letters, and European Journal of Operational Research. He is coauthor of the monograph The Economics of Football (Cambridge University Press, 1st edition 2001; 2nd edition 2011). Arne Feddersen is Professor MSO of Industrial vEconomics in the Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics at University of Southern Denmark, Campus Esbjerg. His research is primarily focused on sports economics, media economics and the economics of betting markets. He is

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the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Sport Finance and has published in journals such as Economic Inquiry, Labour Economics, Journal of Sports Economics and International Journal of Sport Finance. David Forrest is Professor of Economics at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom and Honorary Professor, Macau Polytechnic Institute. He specializes in analysis of the sports and gambling industries. He is a member of the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board, which advises the UK authorities on problem gambling issues. He contributes substantially to litera- ture on sport and gambling markets. Outlets include journals such as Economic Inquiry, Labour Economics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, International Journal of Forecasting and European Journal of Operational Research. Jaume García is Professor in the Department of Economics and Business at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. He is Academic Advisor of the School of International Trade (ESCI), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. He is one of the authors of the Handbook on the Economics of Sport, edited by Edward Elgar. He has published articles in journals such as Journal of Sports Economics, European Sport Management Quarterly, Health Economics and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. He is former President of the Spanish Institute of Statistics. John Goddard is Professor of Financial Economics at Bangor Business School, United Kingdom. He is an expert in sports betting and his other research interests are in industrial organization, the economics of financial institutions and the economics of professional sports. He has recent publications in Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Forecasting, European Journal of Operational Research and International Journal of Industrial Organization. He is coauthor of the monograph The Economics of Football (Cambridge University Press, 1st edition 2001; 2nd edition 2011). Kent R. Grote is Assistant Professor of Economics at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. His research focuses on US lottery and gambling markets and he has published articles in such journals as Public Finance Review, Eastern Economic Journal and Journal of Gambling Business and Economics.

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Brad R. Humphreys is Professor in the Department of Economics at West Virginia University, USA. He belongs to several editorial boards and has published articles in Southern Economic Journal, Applied Economics, Journal of Sport Management, Journal of Sports Economics and Contemporary Economic Policy. Victor A. Matheson is Professor in the Department of Economics at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He is an expert in sports economics, especially in the analysis of great sports events’ impact, public finance and gaming economics. He has collaborated as an expert in magazines such as Forbes, ESPN The Magazine and The New York Times. Rodney Paul is Professor in the Department of Sport Management at Syracuse University, USA. His research focuses on sports economics and gambling economics. His research has appeared on Buffalo Sabres Gamenight and Forbes.com, in CFO Magazine, and in various newspaper and radio outlets, including recent interviews on National Public Radio. He has also published in specialized journals such as Journal of Sports Economics, Journal of Economics and Finance and Atlantic Journal. David Peel is a Professor in Economics at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. He was educated at the University of Warwick. He has held previous posts at the University of Liverpool, Aberystwyth and University of Cardiff. Professor Peel has published widely on empirical and theoretical issues in macroeconomics and the economics of gambling markets. He has published pioneering papers in the application of nonlinear ESTAR models to purchasing power parity devia- tions, the political theory of the business cycle, uncertainty and football attendance, central banks with asymmetric pref- erences and political popularity series modelled as fractional processes. Levi Pérez is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Oviedo, Spain. He is an expert in lottery markets and gambling economics, and has published several articles in scientific journals such as The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C – Applied Statistics, Papers in Regional Science, Journal of Economic Surveys and the

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Journal of Gambling Studies. He is also co-author of a chapter published in the book Recent Developments in the Economics of Sport, edited by Wladimir Andreff. Plácido Rodríguez is Professor EU of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Oviedo, Spain. He is the co-editor of the books Sports Economics after Fifty Years: Essays in Honour of Simon Rottenberg, Governance and Competition in Professional Sports Leagues, Threats to Sports and Sports Participation and Social Responsibility and Sustainability in Sports. He was formerly President of Real Sporting de Gijon Football Club and currently is the Director of the Fundación Observatorio Económico del Deporte and the Honorary President of the IASE (International Association of Sports Economists). Jane E. Ruseski is Associate Professor of Economics at West Virginia University, USA. She is an applied microeconomist with specializations in health, sports and gambling economics. She has published in several journals including Contemporary Economic Policy, Health Economics, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Sports Economics and International Journal of Sport Finance. She is a co-editor of Contemporary Economic Policy and International Journal of Sport Finance. Robert Simmons is Senior Lecturer of Economics at Lancaster University Management School, United Kingdom. He is an expert in labour economics and sports economics. He has been consultant to the International Labour Organization. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Sports Economics. He has published in numerous journals such as Economic Enquiry, Applied Economics, Economica, Journal of Sports Economics and Southern Economic Journal. Andrew Weinbach is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Finance, Wall College of Business at Coastal Carolina University, USA. He is the author of more than fifty publications on sports betting and consumer demand for sports. His current research areas encompass sports betting markets, human behaviour in financial markets and the demand for sports on television. His research has been published in a number of journals, including Journal of Sports Economics, Journal of Prediction Markets, Journal of Economics and Finance and Journal of Economics and Business.

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Rhys Wheeler is a PhD student and Associate Lecturer at Lancaster University, United Kingdom. His research areas are applied microeconomics and behavioural economics, focusing on the economics of gambling. He is also interested in health economics, in particular the economics of addiction. His current projects involve modelling demand and evaluating the taxation of gambling product, and also researching the welfare impact of gambling. Jie Yang was a Research Associate at the University of Alberta, Canada until April 2016. His main skills are data analyses, econometrics, qualitative and quantitative research and statistical modelling.

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