Workshop on Sports, Economics, and Natural Experiments

09:30 – 10:00

Arrival and Coffee

10:00 – 10:30

Discrimination

“Exploring Implicit Racial Discrimination in the WNBA”

Kenneth Colombe, Alex Krumer, Rosa Lavelle-Hill, Tim Pawlowski

10:30 – 11:00

“Gender Bias in Professional Tennis: A Blind Tasting Experiment”

Yu Pan, Carlos Gómez-Gonzàlez, Helmut Dietl

11:00 – 11:30

“The Impacts of Social Activism on Discrimination”

Andrew Wooders

11:30 – 11:45

Break

11:45 – 12:15

Reference Dependent Behavior

“Nominal Illusion and Loss Aversion: Evidence from Ski Jumping”

Alex Krumer, Felix Otto, Tim Pawlowski

12:15 – 12:45

“Gender Differences in Reference-Dependent Behavior: Evidence from Tennis and Marathon Running”

Raphael Flepp & Christian Deutscher

12:45 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 14:30

Teamwork

“The Strategic Benefits of Sending Your Friends Away: A Coopetition Problem in Professional Road Cycling”

Julian Matthes & David Piazolo

14:30 – 15:00

“Teamwork and Spillover Effects in Performance Evaluations”

Enzo Brox & Michael Lechner

15:00 – 15:30

Psychological Biases

“Are Fantasy Sports Markets Efficient? The Case of Sorare Football”

Rouven Michels & Christian Deutscher

15:30 – 16:00

“Action Bias and Gender Differences in Mixed-Strategy Equilibria: Insights from the Penalty Kicks Game”

Leo Morabito

16:00 – 16:30

Break

16:30 – 17:00

Pressure & Strategic Choices

“Psychological Pressure: The Case of Penalty Kicks Revisited”

Romain Gauriot & John Wooders

17:00 – 17:30

“Sports, Minimax and Pressure”

Heinrich Nax

17:30 – 18:00

“Fair Play or Winning Ugly? Risk-Taking Behaviour in Elite Competition under Different Rules”

Alessandro Di Mattia

19:00

Dinner