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Stefan Szymanski

Title:

Stefan Szymanski
Professor of Sports Management, University of Michigan

Organisation:

University of Michigan

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Website:

http://www.kines.umich.edu/profile/stefan-szymanski-phd?page=4

Curriculum Vitae:

He has published widely in the academic press on issues relating to the incentives in contests, competitive balance in sports leagues, the business strategy of football and other sports, the sale of broadcast rights, the role of competition law, public subsidies major sporting events, wellbeing and sports policy, and the economic history of sport.

He has advised governments, sport governing bodies and clubs on various economic issues, and appeared as an expert witness for the OFT in the Premier League Broadcasting Case. 

He has written in the media on business issues relating to football, cricket and the Olympics among others, and currently has three books in press: Fans of the World Unite!  A (Capitalist) Manifesto for Sports Consumers (with Steve Ross, Stanford University Press), Playbooks and checkbooks: An Introduction to the Economics of Modern Sports (Princeton University Press) and Why England Lose & Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained (with Simon Kuper, HarperCollins).

Presentations

The Reassuring stability of Football Capitalism
 - Play the Game 2009 (Pdf.)

Sustainable football financing part one - Play the Game 2009 (Video)