Brian P. Soebbing

NAASE is organizing sessions for the SEA conference to be held in Houston, TX Nov 21-23, 2026. To submit a paper, please email Frank Stephenson by March 28: --Name, affiliation, and email for presenter and all coauthors --The paper's title and abstract. --Two JEL codes

A big thanks to @UofSC_HRSM Associate Professor Grace Yan for her research talk today to @UAlbertaKSR Faculty and students about bringing together sociological questions and economic analysis in sport.

What does it take to achieve the highest level of human performance? Across athletics, science, chess, and music @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Cover just dropped. Coming in 2026 from Oxford University Press.

ESEA 2025 sportseconomics.org/sports-economi…

A small loose end from NAASE's meeting in SF: One can sign up for contents alerts for the JSE using the link below (scroll down a bit and look at the right side of the page). journals.sagepub.com/home/jse

We are excited to announce the creation of the Coates-Humphreys NAASE Distinguished Research Award, with Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys as the inaugural winners. It will be given in odd-numbered years (the Hadley Award is given in even-numbered years). Congrats Brad & Dennis!

We're looking forward to seeing lots of NAASE members at the WEA conference which starts tomorrow in San Francisco!

Allen Sanderson is best known for his remark, "If you want to inject money into the local economy, it would be better to drop it from a helicopter than invest it in a new ballpark," but he should be remembered for much more. fieldofschemes.com/2025/01/27/223…

Are esports spectators fickle when there’s too much to watch? 🎮👀 Excited to share my latest research with @watanabe2k , @bpsoebbing , and @HanhanXue on the economics of attention in esports streaming! #Esports #AttentionEconomy 🧵1/2 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

NAASE will hold a short Zoom meeting Wed 11/13 (12 noon ET) to announce the 2024 Hadley Award winner and this year's grad student award. The meeting link will go out via email but anyone who doesn't get the link and wants to join should contact Frank Stephenson or other officer.

@BMMillsy I’ll go back to my regularly scheduled duties 😀

@BMMillsy @skipsauer Gwynn would have been my first guess. Paul Molitor would be my second guess. He was late in his career but I think he had some nice numbers late into his 30s/early 40s

@BMMillsy Agreed. Ross will be missed.

Kicking it off with @watanabe2k discussing the effects of hosting the Olympics in remote rural cities in Korea. Their study reveals a mixed impact on temporary housing - with rent increases before the Games, but not during, putting extra pressure on low-income families.

@humphreys_brad @watanabe2k Greatest hits volume 1

Thank god @humphreys_brad burned CD’s for us with the readings.

Many thanks to the participants in this week's NAASE-sponsored sessions at the WEA meetings--lots of interesting papers, helpful feedback, and collegial conversations. Special hat tip to organizers @jillharris and @JRuseski. Mark your calendars for next year in Seattle!

All good papers in the @NAASEcon session 231

@BMMillsy @humphreys_brad A balmy 48 degrees here right now

@BMMillsy @humphreys_brad As long as it involves BBQ and/or tacos, what’s a little heat. 😀