International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy at HSE April Academic Conference

Laboratory staff members presented papers on sports economics and government support.

Dennis Coates presented “The Determinants of Government Support for Russian Companies” at the Public Choice meetings in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and at the April Conference in Moscow.  The paper is a joint work with Iuliia Naidenova and Petr Parshakov.  He was also a co-author on three papers presented at the sports economics sessions. 
determinants of business support.pptx

Petr Parshakov presented a paper joint with Dennis Coates, Iuliia Naidenova and Arne Feddersen. The paper is about the determinants of brand of football clubs in Europe. The authors analyzed 7 European leagues and conducted comparative analysis. The main determinants of the brand are winning championships, the age of the players and participation in the Champions League. A detailed description of the results is available in the presentation.
European brand.pptx

Petr also presented anoter joint paper with Dennis Coates. They studied if the prize distribution in eSport follows tournament theory. The authors found that the prize spreads in eSports follows tournament theory, but there is a difference between the motivation of groups and individuals. This difference increases along with the reward and the status of the competition.
esports.pptx