Prof. Dr. Egon Franck

Professor of Strategic Management & Business Policy
Department of Business Administration, University of Zurich

Egon Franck is the Chair of Strategic Management and Business Policy at the Department of Business Administration, University of Zurich. His research focuses on theoretical and empirical sports economics including betting-markets. He acted as the vice president of the University of Zurich from 2008 - 2012, is the director of the Department of Business Administration since 2015, and the president of the Academic Sport Association of Zurich (ASVZ) since 2008. Egon is actively involved in sports regulation, for example as a member of UEFA's Club Financial Control Panel from 2009-2012, and as a member of the Investigatory Chamber of UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body since 2012.

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Jedelhauser, F., Flepp, R., Meier, P. F., & Franck, E. (2025). Does performance pressure accentuate outcome bias? Evidence from managerial dismissals. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 236, 107086. doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107086

Flepp, R., Merz, O., & Franck, E. (2024). When the league table lies: Does outcome bias lead to informationally inefficient markets?. Economic Inquiry, 62(1), 414-429. doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13163

Jedelhauser, F., Flepp, R., & Franck, E. (2023). Overshadowed by popularity: The value of second-tier stars in European football. Journal of Sports Economics, 24(8), 1026-1054. doi.org/10.1177/15270025231187880

Meier, P. F., Flepp, R., & Franck, E. (2023). Replication: Do coaches stick with what barely worked? Evidence of outcome bias in sports. Journal of Economic Psychology, 99, 102664. doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2023.102664

Flepp, R., & Franck, E. (2021). The performance effects of wise and unwise managerial dismissals. Economic Inquiry, 59(1), 186-198. doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12924

Meier, P., Flepp, R., Ruedisser, M., & Franck, E. (2020). Separating psychological momentum from strategic momentum: Evidence from men’s professional tennis. Journal of economic psychology, 78, 102269. doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2020.102269

Meier, P., Flepp, R., Ruedisser, M., & Franck, E. (2020). The advantage of scoring just before the half-time break—pure myth? Quasi-experimental evidence from European football. Journal of Sports Economics, 21(5), 548-565.  doi.org/10.1177/1527002520913102

European Club Football after “Five Treatments” with Financial Fair Play: Time for an Assessment, in International Journal of Financial Studies, 2018, 6(4), 97. doi.org/10.3390/ijfs6040097

The effect of fast trading on price discovery and efficiency: Evidence from a betting exchange, in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 156C, 126-143, (with P. Bizzozero and R. Flepp). doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2018.09.020

Flepp R., Nüesch S., & Franck E. (2017). The Liquidity Advantage Of The Quote-Driven Market: Evidence from the betting industry, in The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2017, 64, 306-317, (with R. Flepp and S. Nüesch). doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2016.07.016

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