Agergaard, Sine

Alber, Erdmute

Booth, Sara

Botelho, Vera

Claussen, Detlev

Darby, Paul

Engh, Mari

Liston, Katie

McCree, Roy

Mueller, Julianne

Nieland, Joerg-Uwe

Poli, Raffaele

Pfister, Gertrud

Rial, Carmen

Saavedra, Martha

Schaaf, Daniela

Schokkaert, Jeron

Spitaler, Georg

Tiesler, Nina Clara

Ungruhe, Christian

v. d. Meij, Nienke

Weedon, Gavin

Williams, Jean

Members

University of Leuven (KUL)
Faculty of Business and Economics
LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance
Email: jeroen.schokkaert@econ.kuleuven.be
Study Groups: FM

Research area & expertise:

• Research at the LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance increasingly focuses on institutional changes and reforms in developing countries. In sports, one particular institutional change is the emergence of football academies that serve as an institutional instrument to transfer football players to European leagues. Our research in sports economics contributes to the economic implications of player migration.

Current reasearch interests & projects:

• Any research in the field of sports, migration and economic development. More specifically, current research projects are the effect of national team player migration on international football performance, the economic implications of recruitment strategies of football clubs (with a particular interest in football academies in developing countries), and integration/assimilation of football migrants in their new environment.

Selected publications:

• Berlinschi, R., Schokkaert, J., & Swinnen, J.F.M. (2010). When Drains and Gains Coincide: Migration and International Football Performance. Discussion Paper No. 265. LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, Leuven. http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/licos/DP/DP2010/DP265.pdf

  Schokkaert, J., Swinnen, J.F.M., & Vandemoortele, T. (2012). Mega-Events and Sports Institutional Development: The Impact of the World Cup on Football Academies in Africa. In A. Zimbalist & W. Maennig (Eds.), Handbook on the Economics of Mega Sport Events. Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.

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