Neil Longley
Professor and PhD Coordinator for Sport Management
Telephone: 413-545-5059
Email: nlongley@sportmgt.umass.edu
Office: SOM 236
Currently Teaching: SPORTMGT 692A
Previously Taught: SPORTMGT 392A, SPORTMGT 424, SPORTMGT 624
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
Biography: | more
Dr. Longley’s primary academic interests are in the areas of sports economics and sports finance. He has published sports-related articles in such journals as The Social Science Journal, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Law and Business Review of the Americas, Journal of Sports Economics, and Canadian Public Policy...
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Longley, Neil and Swaminathan Sankaran "The Incentive Effects of Overtime Rules in Professional Hockey: A Comment and Extension" in the Journal of Sports Economics, April 6, 2007: p. 546.
Longley, Neil and Steve McKelvey (2006) "Venezuela Holds Lessons for MLB" in SportsBusiness Journal, March 13, 2006: p. 24
Longley, Neil and Sam Sankaran (2005) "The NHL"s Overtime-Loss Rule: Empirically Analyzing the Unintended Effects", Atlantic Economic Journal33: 137-138.
Longley, Neil (2005) "The Role of Performance Volatility in Pricing Human Assets; Adapting the 'Capital Asset Pricing Model' to Salary Determination in Professional Sports". Journal of Business and Economic Studies 11(1): 1-18
Longley, Neil (2003) “The Effects of Inter-League Competition on Labor Market Discrimination: Assessing the Impacts of the World Hockey Association”, The Social Science Journal 40(4): 651-656
Longley, Neil (2003) “Measuring Employer-Based Discrimination Versus Customer-Based Discrimination: The Case of French Canadians in the National Hockey League”, American Journal of Economics and Sociology 62(2): 365-381
Longley, Neil and Terry Wu (2003) “The Applicability of NAFTA to the Subsidization of US-Based NHL Teams: Legal and Economic Perspectives” Law and Business Review of the Americas 9(3)
