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Overview

Robert Simmons is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their research intersects primarily with the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a focus on subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, and Gender Studies.

The scholarly output of Simmons centers on themes linked to sports and society. Key topics covered in their work encompass Sports Analytics and Performance, Sports, Gender, and Society, Sport and Mega-Event Impacts, as well as Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies. Additional interests include Sports Performance and Training, and the interactions between Religion and Society.

A selection of recent papers authored or coauthored by Simmons includes:

  • Professional Labor Markets in the Journal of Sports Economics (2021)
  • Time To Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football, published in De Economist (2020)
  • Salary determination in professional football: empirical evidence from goalkeepers, appearing in European Sport Management Quarterly (2023)
  • Spillover Effects of Scandals on Exits from the Catholic and Protestant Churches in Germany, featured in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2021)
  • The determinants of Black quarterback pay in the National Football League, published in Managerial and Decision Economics (2022)

The publication venues frequent in Simmons's work include:

  • Journal of Sports Economics
  • Oxford Economic Papers
  • De Economist
  • European Sport Management Quarterly
  • Managerial and Decision Economics

Collaborations have been notable with various researchers, including:

  • Alex Farnell
  • Babatunde Buraimo
  • David J. Berri
  • David Butler
  • Giambattista Rossi

Best Publications

  • Superstar Effects in Sport: Evidence From Italian Soccer

    Claudio Lucifora;Rob Simmons

  • Human resource management practices and workers' job satisfaction

    Alina Ileana Petrescu;Rob Simmons

  • Outcome uncertainty and attendance demand in sport: the case of English soccer

    David Forrest;Robert Simmons

  • Outcome uncertainty and the couch potato audience

    David Forrest;Robert Simmons;Babatunde Buraimo

  • Odds setters as forecasters: the case of English football

    David Forrest;John Goddard;Robert Simmons

  • Do Sports Fans Really Value Uncertainty of Outcome? Evidence from the English Premier League

    Babatunde Buraimo;Rob Simmons

  • The financial crisis in European football - an introduction.

    Umberto Lago;Rob Simmons;Stefan Szymanski

  • New issues in attendance demand: the case of the English Football League.

    David Forrest;Rob Simmons

  • The Returns to Scarce Talent: Footedness and Player Remuneration in European Soccer

    Alex Bryson;Bernd Frick;Robert Simmons

  • A tale of two audiences: Spectators, television viewers and outcome uncertainty in Spanish football

    Babatunde Buraimo;Rob Simmons

  • The impact of managerial quality on organizational performance: evidence from German soccer

    Bernd Frick;Robert Simmons

  • Buying a Dream: Alternative Models of Demand for Lotto

    David Forrest;Robert Simmons;Neil Chesters

  • Uncertainty of Outcome or Star Quality? Television Audience Demand for English Premier League Football

    Babatunde Buraimo;Robert Simmons

  • The Labour Market in Association Football: Who Gets Transferred and for How Much?

    Fiona Carmichael;David Forrest;Robert Simmons

  • The Effects of Coworker Heterogeneity on Firm-Level Output: Assessing the Impacts of Cultural and Language Diversity in the National Hockey League

    Leo Kahane;Neil Longley;Robert Simmons

  • The demand for English league football: a club-level analysis.

    Robert Simmons

  • Sport and Gambling

    David Forrest;Robert Simmons

  • Forecasting sport: the behaviour and performance of football tipsters

    David Forrest;Robert Simmons

  • Sentiment in the betting market on Spanish football

    David Forrest;Robert Simmons

  • Race and the evaluation of signal callers in the National Football League.

    David J. Berri;Rob Simmons

  • Book Review: Winners and Losers: The Business Strategy of Football:

    Robert Simmons

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex Bryson
Alex Bryson University College London
Stefan Szymanski
Stefan Szymanski University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Brad R. Humphreys
Brad R. Humphreys West Virginia University
David Peel
David Peel Lancaster University
John Goddard
John Goddard Bangor University
Ian Walker
Ian Walker Lancaster University

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