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Stefan Szymanski is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research broadly spans the fields of economics, econometrics, and finance, with significant work in social sciences. The primary subfields of study include economics and econometrics, gender studies, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work focuses on several key topics related to sports and society. These topics include sports analytics and performance, sports, gender, and society, sport and mega-event impacts, gambling behavior and treatments, data analysis with R, consumer market behavior and pricing, and American sports and literature.

Recent research papers by Stefan Szymanski cover various aspects of sports economics and analytics. Notable publications include:

  • "Sport Analytics: Science or Alchemy?" (2020), published in Kinesiology Review
  • "Anticipating the honeymoon: Event study estimation of new stadium effects in Major League Baseball using the imputation method" (2023), published in Economic Inquiry
  • "The Private Benefit of Public Funding: The FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, and Attendance at Host Country League Soccer" (2020), published in Journal of Sports Economics
  • "All Runs Are Created Equal: Labor Market Efficiency in Major League Baseball" (2022), published in Journal of Sports Economics
  • "The Survival of Mediocre Superstars in the Labor Market" (2021), published in The Journal of Law Economics and Organization

Stefan Szymanski also has contributions to book publications, including "Fans of the World, Unite!" released in 2020 by Stanford University Press eBooks.

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Stephen F. Ross, Ryan Pinheiro, Alex Krumer, Jason A. Winfree, and Connor Allen. Several papers have been co-authored with these colleagues.

They publish predominantly in journals such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Sports Economics Review, Journal of Sports Economics, International Journal of Sport Finance, and Kinesiology Review.

Best Publications

  • The Economic Design of Sporting Contests

    Stefan Szymanski

  • Handbook on the Economics of Sport

    Wladimir Andreff;Stefan Szymanski

  • The English Football Industry: Profit, Performance and Industrial Structure

    Stefan Szymanski;Ron Smith

  • The Americanization of European football

    Thomas Hoehn;Stefan Szymanski

  • National well-being and international sports events

    Georgios Kavetsos;Stefan Szymanski

  • Testing Causality Between Team Performance and Payroll: The Cases of Major League Baseball and English Soccer

    Stephen Hall;Stefan Szymanski;Andrew S. Zimbalist

  • Competitive balance and gate revenue sharing in team sports

    Stefan Szymanski;Stefan Késenne

  • Income Inequality, Competitive Balance and the Attractiveness of Team Sports: Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from English Soccer

    Stefan Szymanski

  • Are We Willing to Pay Enough to `Back the Bid'?: Valuing the Intangible Impacts of London's Bid to Host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games

    Giles Atkinson;Susana Mourato;Stefan Szymanski;Ece Ozdemiroglu

  • The Disappearing Relationship Between Directors' Pay and Corporate Performance

    Paul Gregg;Stephen Machin;Stefan Szymanski

  • Goal! profit maximization versus win maximization in soccer

    Pedro Garcia-del-Barrio;Stefan Szymanski

  • A Market Test for Discrimination in the English Professional Soccer Leagues

    Stefan Szymanski

  • The Economic Impact of the World Cup

    Stefan Szymanski

  • Cheating in Contests

    Ian Preston;Stefan Szymanski

  • The financial crisis in European football - an introduction.

    Umberto Lago;Rob Simmons;Stefan Szymanski

  • Financial fair play in European football

    Thomas Peeters;Stefan Szymanski

  • Incentive effects of second prizes

    Stefan Szymanski;Tommaso M. Valletti;Tommaso M. Valletti

  • Privatization, Liberalization, Wages and Employment: Theory and Evidence for the UK

    Jonathan Haskel;Stefan Szymanski

  • On the Edge of Your Seat: Demand for Football on Television and the Uncertainty of Outcome Hypothesis

    Kevin Alavy;Alison Gaskell;Stephanie Leach;Stefan Szymanski

  • Professional Team Sports Are Only a Game: The Walrasian Fixed-Supply Conjecture Model, Contest-Nash Equilibrium, and the Invariance Principle

    Stefan Szymanski

Frequent Co-Authors

Tommaso M. Valletti
Tommaso M. Valletti Imperial College London
Claudia Senik
Claudia Senik Paris School of Economics
Paul Dolan
Paul Dolan London School of Economics and Political Science
Robert Simmons
Robert Simmons Lancaster University
Ian Preston
Ian Preston University College London
Ronald Smith
Ronald Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Carlos Pestana Barros
Carlos Pestana Barros University of Lisbon
Jonathan Haskel
Jonathan Haskel Imperial College London
Alan Manning
Alan Manning London School of Economics and Political Science
Susana Mourato
Susana Mourato London School of Economics and Political Science

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