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Another SpORts-related Conference Opportunity

  • 1.  Another SpORts-related Conference Opportunity

    Posted 03-18-2019 11:37
    Courtesy of Dries Goossens:

    The 3rd International Conference on Football Economics, taking place in in Baku (Azerbaijan) on May 29-31, 2019.

    Khazar University (Baku, Azerbaijan), New Economic School (Moscow, Russia) and Higher School of Economics (Russia) cordially invite you to submit your abstracts for presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Football Economics that will take place in Baku (Azerbaijan) on May 29-31, 2019 at the days of the UEFA Europa League final. The conference is aimed to highlight high-quality research of the football industry as well as to facilitate the cooperation between academics and practitioners.

    The deadline for submitting an extended abstract (approximately 3 pages long) is March 15, 2019. Notification of acceptance will be sent by March 31, 2019. Extended abstract submission is through EasyChair. Please, click the link or type the following address in your browser: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=footec2019

    The plenary talks will be delivered by Dennis Coates (University of Maryland, Baltimore County; HSE) and Ruud Koning (University of Groningen).

    After the conference, a volume in a book series on Sports Economics is planned to be published by Springer (Ed. Dennis Coates). The volume will include full versions of papers presented at the conference. The submissions would be refereed much the same way as journal submissions are refereed, with no guarantee of acceptance into the volume. The deadline for submission of full version is June 15, 2019.

    Social part of the conference will include the UEFA Europa League final.

    For more information about the conference, please visit the website https://www.footballeconomics.ru/

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    Stephen Hill
    Associate Professor
    University of North Carolina-Wilmington
    Wilmington, NC
    hills@uncw.edu
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