2022 Raciti Memorial Lecture - The Curious Economics of Big-time College Sports

Thursday October 27, 6 pm, ASB 136

Please join us for a DMC Lecture Series event on economics, data, and sports – given by Dr. Brad Humphreys, West Virginia University and the Eastern Economic Association!

Dr. Humphreys is one of the leading sports economists in the world today, mainly known for his contributions to the economics of sports stadiums and the economics of college athletics. He is the 2016-17 Benedum Distinguished Scholar in Social and Behavioral Sciences at WVU and is the recipient of the 2022 Peter Sloane Award for his research contributions to European sports economics. He served as the President of the Eastern Economic Association in 2021-2022.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Economic Policy, a general interest economics journal and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sports Economics, the International Journal of Sport Finance, the International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, and International Gambling Studies. Dr. Humphreys has published over 100 peer reviewed journal articles in leading economics journals.

This talk is sponsored by the Eastern Economic Association in partnership with the Sabrin Center and the Center for Data, Mathematical, and Computational Sciences.

Categories: Data Science, Lecture Series, MSDS