Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management at Isenberg

Prof. Neil Longley

Neil Longley 

Professor 


Telephone: 413-545-5059

Email: nlongley@isenberg.umass.edu

Office: Isenberg 329

 

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Education:

Ph.D., Washington State University, 1994
M.A., University of Regina, 1988
M.B.A., University of Manitoba, 1983
B.Admin., University of Regina, 1981

 Research/Teaching Interests:

Sport Economics
Sport Finance



Recent and Forthcoming Scholarly Publications: 2011-12

 

Kahane, Leo, Neil Longley, and Robert Simmons (forthcoming, 2012) "The Effects of Coworker Heterogeneity on Firm-Level Output: Assessing the Impacts of Cultural and Language Diversity in the National Hockey League"  Review of Economics and Statistics

Longley, Neil and Nelson Lacey (forthcoming, 2012) "The 'Second' Season: The Effects of Playoff Systems on Competitive Balance Outcomes in the NHL and NBA" Journal of Sport Economics

Longley, Neil (forthcoming, 2012) "The Impact of International Competitions on Competitive Balance in Domestic Leagues: The Case of the National Hockey League's Participation in the Winter Olympics" International Journal of Sport Finance

Kahane, Leo, Neil Longley, and Robert Simmons (forthcoming, 2012) "Returns to Thuggery in the National Hockey League: The Effects of Increased Enforcement" in Sports and Econometrics (ed. Placido Rodriguez), Edward Elgar

Longley, Neil (forthcoming, 2012) "The Economics of Discrimination: Evidence from Hockey", in Economics Through Sports (eds. Leo Kahane and Stephen Schmanske), Oxford University Press

Longley, Neil (forthcoming, 2012) "The Underrepresentation of French Canadians on English Canadians NHL Teams" in Recent Developments in the Economics of Sport: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series  (ed. Wladimir Andreff), Edward Elgar

Longley, Neil and Glenn Wong (2011) "The Speed of Human Capital Formation in the Baseball Industry: The Information Value of Minor-League Performance in Predicting Major-League Performance" Managerial and Decision Economics 32(2): pp. 193-204

Longley, Neil (2011) "Congressional Complicity in the Baseball Antitrust Exemption: Analyzing Senate Voting Patterns" Applied Economics Letters 18(10): pp. 945-947

 

 

 

Recent Invited Guest Lectures

Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass), Sport Analytics Collective: November 2010 

Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), School of Industrial and Labor Relations: November 2010

University of Antwerp (Belgium), Department of Economics: October 2010

Lancaster University Management School (England), Department of Economics: June 2010

 

Recent Awards

2010-2011, Outstanding Research Award, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts