Many documents on this site are in PDF format. They can be read or printed out using Adobe Acrobat Reader. This program is available on most campus computers or is available, free of charge, at Adobe Software. Curriculum Vitae Current curriculum vitae for Victor Matheson, Winter 2008. Scholarly Papers: Sports Economics and Economic Impact Analysis "NFL Governance and the Fate of the New Orleans Saints," (with Robert Baade), in Sports Economics, Plácido Rodríguez Guerrero, ed. (Gijon, Spain), forthcoming. "Mega-Events: The effect of the world's biggest sporting events on local, regional, and national economies," in The Business of Sports, Vol 1," Dennis Howard and Brad Humphreys, eds., (New York: Praeger Publishers, 2008), forthcoming 2008. "A Fall Classic? The Economic Impact of the World Series," (with Robert Baade), International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, Vol. 3:4, (July 2008), 319-334. "Selling the Game: Estimating the Economic Impact of Professional Sports through Taxable Sales," (with Robert Baade and Robert Baumann), Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 74:3 (January 2008), forthcoming. "Professional Sports, Hurricane Katrina, and the Economic Redevelopment of New Orleans,” (with Robert Baade), Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 25:4, (October 2007), 591-603. "Research Note: Athletic Graduation Rates and Simpson’s Paradox," Economics of Education Review, Vol. 26:4 (August 2007), 516-520. "Can New Orleans Play Its Way Past Katrina? The Role of Professional Sports in the Redevelopment of New Orleans," (with Robert Baade), International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, Vol. 2:5-6 (June 2007), 541-554. "A Tale of Two Stadiums: Comparing the Economic Impact of Chicago’s Wrigley Field and U.S. Cellular Field," (with Robert Baade), Geographische Rundschau International Edition, Vol. 3:1 (January 2007), 53-58. "Economic Impact Analysis," in Elgar Companion to the Economics of Sports, Wladimir Andreff and Stefan Szymanski, eds., (London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006), 137-142. "Padding Required: Assessing the Economic Impact of the Super Bowl," (with Robert Baade), European Sports Management Quarterly, Vol. 6:4 (December 2006), 353-374. "International Women's Football and Gender Inequality," (with Robert Hoffman, Lee Chew Ging, and Bala Ramasamy), Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 13:15 (December 2006), 999-1001. "Have Public Finance Principles Been Shut Out in Financing New Stadiums for the NFL?" (with Robert Baade), Public Finance and Management, Vol. 6:3 (Summer 2006), 284-320. "Is Smaller Better? A Comment on ‘Comparative Economic Impact Analyses’ by Michael Mondello and Patrick Rishe," Economic Development Quarterly, Vol. 20:2 (May 2006), 192-195. "The Effects of Work Stoppages on Major League Baseball Attendances: Revisited,," Applied Economics, Vol. 38:10 (June 2006), 1173-1179. "Professional Sports," in Encyclopedia of American Business History, Charles Geisst, ed., (New York: Facts on File, 2006), 403-408. "European Football: A Survey of the Literature, in Handbook of Sports Economics Research, John Fizel, ed., (New York: M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 2006), 118-135. "Contrary Evidence on the Impact of the Super Bowl on the Victorious City," Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 6:4 (November 2005), 420-428. "The Quest for the Cup: Assessing the Economic Impact of the World Cup," (with Robert Baade), Regional Science, Vol. 38:4, (June 2004), 341-352. ""Mega-Sporting Events in Developing Nations: Playing the Way to Prosperity?" (with Robert Baade), South African Journal of Economics, Vol. 72:5 (December 2004), 1084-1095. "Striking Out: The Effect of Major League Baseball Work Stoppages on Host Communities," (with Robert Baade), working paper. "The Death Effect Revisited," (with Robert Baade), Applied Economics, Vol. 36:11 (June 2004), 1151-1155. "Bidding for the Olympics: Fool's Gold?" (with Robert Baade), presented at the Conferencia Internacional Sobre Economia do Desporto, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2000. Published in Transatlantic Sport, Carlos Barros, M urad Ibrahim, and Stefan Szymanski, eds. (London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002), 127-151. "An Economic Slam Dunk or March Madness? Assessing the Economic Impact of the NCAA Basketball Tournament," (with Rob Baade) in Economics of College Sports, John Fizel and Rodney Fort, eds., (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004), 111-133. "Full of Promises: Economic Impact of Mega-events," (with Robert Baade) Stadia Magazine, Issue 18, (September 2002), 62-64. "Upon Further Review, The Sport Journal, Vol. 5:1, (Winter 2002). "Home Run or Wild Pitch? The Economic Impact of Major League Baseball's All-Star Game on Host Cities," (with Rob Baade), Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 2:4, (November 2001), 307-326. "An Assessment of the Economic Impact of the American Football Championship, the Super Bowl, on Host Communities," (with Rob Baade) Reflets et Perspectives, Vol. 39:2-3, (Summer 2000), 35-46. (De Boeck University, Brussels, Belgium.) (See commentary on this paper by Rob Baade, Jim Steeg, and Alan Snel at Foxsports.com.) "High Octane? Grading the Economic Impact of the Daytona 500," (with Rob Baade) Marquette Sports Law Journal, Vol. 10:2, (Spring 2000), 401-415. Scholarly Papers: Lotteries and Gambling "Gamblers' Love for Variety and Substitution among Lotto Games," (with Kent Grote), Journal of Gambling Business and Economics, Vol. 1:2 (June 2007), 85-99. "Examining the ‘Halo Effect’ in Lotto Games, (with Kent Grote), Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 14:4 (March 2007), 307-310. "In Search of a Fair Bet in the Lottery," (with Kent Grote), Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 32:4, (Fall 2006), 555-570. "Dueling Jackpots: Are Competing Lotto Games Complements or Substitutes?" (with Kent Grote), Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 34:1 (March 2006), 85-100. "Rationality and Efficiency in Lotto Games," (with Kent Grote) in Information Efficiency in Financial and Betting Markets, Leighton Vaughan-Williams, ed., (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 313-329. "Gambling and Lotteries," in The Encyclopedia of Capitalism, Syed B. Hussain, ed., (New York: Facts on File, 2004). "Lotto Fever! Do Lottery Players Act Rationally in the Face of Large Jackpots? (short version)," (with Kent Grote), Economics Letters, Vol. 84:2, (April 2004), 233-237. "Jacking up the Jackpot. Are Lottery Consumers Fooled by Annuity Payments?" (with Kent Grote), Public Economics Review, Vol. 31:5, (September 2003), 550-567. "When are State Lotteries a Good Bet? (Revisited)" Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 27:1, (Winter 2001), 55-70. Scholarly Papers: Other topics "Alternative Methods of Calculating Optimal Timber Rotations: A Critique of the Stokey/Lucas/Prescott Tree-Cutting Problem,” Applied Economics Letters, forthcoming. "Estimating the Economic Impact of Natural and Social Disasters with an Application to Hurricane Katrinas," (with Robert Baade and Robert Baumann), Urban Studies, Vol. 44:11, (October 2007), 2061-2076. "Cost of Living," "Deprivation Index," "European Relative Income Standard of Poverty," "Headcount Index," "Human Poverty Index," "Income," "Poverty Clock," "Poverty Gap," "Poverty Gap Index," "Senate Hunger Caucus," "Squared Poverty Gap Index," "Standard Food Basket Variant," "TIP Curves," "Toc H," "Totally Fuzzy and Relative (TFR) Poverty Measures," and "UBN-PL Method," and in The Encyclopedia of World Poverty, Mehmet Odekon, ed., (London: Sage Publications, 2006). "ChevronTexaco," "Mining," and "TotalFinaElf," in Encyclopedia of Capitalism, Syed B. Hussain, ed., (New York: Facts on File, 2004). "Race and Riots: A Note on the Economic Impact of the Rodney King Riots," (with Robert Baade), Urban Studies, Vol. 41:13 (December 2004), 2691-2696. "Beech Aircraft" and "Price Discrimination" in Encyclopedia of Corporate and White-Collar Crime, Lawrence Salinger, ed., (London: Sage Publications, 2004). "Prenatal Diagnosis of Double Autosomal Mosaicism (47,XX,+8/47,XX+14): Phenotype and Molecular Cytogenetic Analysis on Different Tissues," (with Jolie K. B. Matheson, Joaquin Santolaya-Forgas, and Maureen McCorquodale), Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy, Vol. 18:1, (January/February 2003), 29-32. "Making PowerPoint Interactive with Hyperlinks," (with Dawn Abt-Perkins and Diane Snedden), presented at the American Economic Association, Active Learning Techniques Poster Session, Atlanta, GA, January 2002. Published by the Economics Centre of the Learning and Teaching Support Network, Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol, February 2002. "Differential Sales Taxes and Income Redistribution," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, completed September 2001. "Methods to Encourage Students to Use Academic Journals," Twelfth Annnual Teaching Economics Connference, February 22-24, 2001, p. 109-112. (Robert Morris College, Pittsburgh, PA) "The CEO Game," presented at the American Economic Association, Active Learning Techniques Poster Session, Boston, MA, January 2000. "The Jigsaw Reading," presented at the American Economic Association, Active Learning Techniques Poster Session, New York City, NY, January 1999. "Counseling Recurrence Risk in Rare Genetic Disorders," (with Jolie Matheson), working paper, September 1998. "Lucas Tree Cutting," April 1995, presented at the University of Minnesota Environmental Engineering Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 1997. Editorials, Book Reviews, and Other Publications "How Money Changed Red Auerbach's Game," published by the Boston Globe, November 1, 2006. "Luck of the Draw," published by the New York Times, July 10, 2005. "Beware of Boosters," published by the Portland Oregonian, March 2, 2005. "Tournament an economic air ball," published by the San Antonio Express-News, March 28, 2004. "Better for U to rent than own," published by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, December 20, 2003. "Gambling and Lotteries," "Mining," "Chevron Texaco," and "FINA Total Elf," forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Capitalism, Geoff Golson, ed., New York: Facts on File, 2004. Book Review: "Free Trade Today" by Jagdish Bhagwati, published by The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, March 2003. Book Review: "Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan" by Alex Kerr, published by The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, March 2003. "Coaching Attitude," in Down-the-Line!, Issue 5, December 18, 2001. "Goodwill can help U.S. achieve a lasting peace," in the Chicago Tribune, September 30, 2001. Book Review: "Can Japan Compete?" by Michael Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi, and Mariko Sakakibara, published by The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, November 2001. Book Review: "Development as Freedom" by Amartya Sen, published by The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, April 2000. "The cost of vouchers," published by the Chicago Tribune, September 7, 1999. "A closer look at the Civil Rights Act tally," published by the Washington Times, June 22, 1999. "Conservatives should admit the sky is falling," published by Ideas Hatched, June 1999. "Tax credit for all may benefit educators only," published by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, August 7, 1998. "Men's athletics should add world's favorite sport," published by the Minnesota Daily, February 20, 1997. "When nuclear power does and doesn't make economic sense," published by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, January 27, 1997. "Parents: Ease up on refs," published by Soccer America, July 1, 1996. "Gender equity in sports under fire," published by the Minnesota Daily, April 10, 1995. "Stop blaming officials for every defeat," published by the Minnesota Daily, November 11, 1994. Consulting/Electronic Media "The Anti-Trust Casebook" most recent revision June 1998, cited by MS-NBC and the Internet Legal Resource Guide. "Investors Forecast.com" most recent work July 1999, cited by Wired, Money.com, Worth.com, and Barrons. "Asktheref.com" including a regular column written by myself since March 2000. Speeches and Invited Talks "Bazaars and Cartels: The Economics of the Middle East from 1970 to the Present," presented at the College of Lake County: Understanding the Islam World, Grayslake, IL, June 2002. "What's Wrong with Brazil?"

This page was last updated on 01/15/07