PROGRAM
III Gijón Economics of Sports Congress
THREATS TO SPORTS AND SPORTS PARTICIPATION
Place: Salón de Actos de la Escuela Universitaria Jovellanos
(Laboral - Ciudad de la Cultura)
Gijón. May, 8th.
- 9.00 Horas
- Opening Session
- DOPING
- 09.30 - 10.15
- Andrew Zimbalist (Smith College, USA)
- "Anti-doping policy in Major League Baseball: What's Next?"
- 10.15 - 11.00
- Bernd Frick (University of Paderborn, Germany)
- "Doping: Rat Race vs. Credible Commitments"
- 11.00
- Coffee break
- CORRUPTION
- 11.30 - 12.15
- Raul Caruso (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy)
- "Match-Fixing in Sport: Opportunities and Incentives"
- 12.155 - 13.30
- Wolfgang Maennig (Universität Hamburg, Germany)
- "Corruption and the fight against in international sports"
- 13.30
- Lunch
- REFEREEING
- 15.00 - 15.45
- Stephen Shmanske (California State University East Bay, USA)
- "Referee Bias in the NBA"
- BETTING
- 15.45 - 16.30
- David Forrest (University of Salford, UK)
- "Risks to sport from the betting sector"
- 16.30
- Coffee break
- SPORTS PARTICIPATION
- 17.00 - 17.45
- Paul Downward (Loughborough University, UK)
- "The Economics of Sports Participation: Some Longitudinal Analysis"
- 17.45 - 18.30
- Brad Humphreys (University of Alberta, Canada)
- "Sport participation and adolescent use of performance enhancing drugs"
- 18.30
- Closing Ceremony
- 21.00
- Official dinner