Sports Betting Workshop 2018
July 23, 2018 - July 24, 2018
North Wing Council Room
University College Cork
Cork, Ireland
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General Information
Betting on sports is an enormously popular activity, which earns significant revenues, enhances many fans’ sense of emotional involvement with sports, and, on the downside, causes substantial welfare loss to people who gamble recklessly or addictively. For the economist interested in people’s preferences over risk, and the interaction of these preferences with their beliefs about probabilities, sports betting provides a field setting almost ideally designed for supporting rich inferences. Policy makers and regulators who have responsibilities associated with sports, leisure, and gambling can gain crucial insights into, and predictive leverage over, responses to changes in odds and incentives through observations of naturally occurring sports betting, as well as through economists’ laboratory and field experiments with punters. The CEAR workshop on Sports Betting brings together both researchers who specialize in the economics of sport, and theoretical and experimental risk specialists who use sports betting contexts as environments for establishing more general insights into risky choice.
Organizers
Glenn Harrison (CEAR, Georgia State University), and Don Ross (University College Cork, University of Cape Town, and CEAR) are the organizers of this workshop, in collaboration with UCC’s Centre for Sports Economics and Law. Funding is being provided by CEAR at Georgia State (cear.gsu.edu), the Centre for Sports Economics and Law (sportseconomics.org), and the Cork University Business School (www.cubsucc.com/). Standard travel (economy airfare) and accommodation support for paper presenters will be provided. Should you have questions, please contact Professor Don Ross at [email protected] about the substance of the workshop, and contact Mark Schneider at [email protected] with questions about participation and logistics.
Dates & Times
Monday, July 23, 2018 – 8:55 to 18:00. Refreshments and lunch will be provided.
Monday, July 23, 2018 – 20:00 – Dinner for invited guests.
Tuesday, July 24, 2018 – 10:00 to 17:00. Refreshments and lunch will be provided.
Contact Mark Schneider at [email protected] should you have any dietary restrictions or special needs. You can also indicate this below during registration.
Location
The workshop will be held at University College Cork, in the North Wing Council Room. The Economics Department at UCC is an internationally recognized hub for sports economics research, teaching and conferences. See http://www.sportseconomics.org/
Cork is the Irish Republic’s second city, European headquarters of Apple and other major companies, and famous for traditional artisanal foods, Murphy’s and Beamish stout ales, and historic architecture. http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/travel/hidden-gems-the-best-things-to-do-in-cork-332551.html
Travel and Expenses
Presenters will be accommodated at The River Lee Hotel, https://www.doylecollection.com/hotels/the-river-lee-hotel, Cork’s 4-star hotel on the river in downtown Cork.
For invited speakers and panel participants, CEAR will cover hotel accommodation, conference meals, local transport, and standard economy airfares to Cork, Dublin, or Shannon airports.
Cork Airport is directly served from various airports in the United Kingdom, plus Amsterdam, Paris, Munich, and Reykjavik. Iceland’s WOW airline connects Cork to various North American destinations via Reykjavik. All major airline hubs abroad are connected to Dublin Airport, from which Cork is reached in 3 hours by overland shuttle. Several North American cities are directly connected to Shannon Airport, which is closer to Cork than Dublin.
Registration & Attendance
If you would like to attend this conference, please register below. Please also indicate during registration if you have any dietary restrictions or special requests, or you can send an email directly to [email protected].
Note that it is free to register and attend this conference, but we are only providing travel support to presenters and select invited guests. Further, catered meals and dinner invitations are limited to the following types of attendees: presenters, discussants, UCC affiliates, and invited guests. All other attendees should plan to make their own arrangements for meals.