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"...Freakonomics meets ESPN." —Alan Schwarz, author, The Numbers Game
Taking Measure of the Many Myths
in Modern Sport
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Reviews | What's Inside | Where to Order | Stanford University Press |
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Published Research in Academic Journals |
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As one can see, my most significant
publication to date is the book: The Wages of
Wins. I stole the design of this page from the website for this
book. This book, published by Stanford University Press, is co-authored
with Martin Schmidt and Stacey Brook. In essence, the book takes many
of the following articles and re-casts this material for a general
audience. The few people who are more interested in the academic
treatment of the subjects covered in the book may find the following articles
to be of interest. Lee, Young Hoon and David
J. Berri. “A Re-Examination of Production Functions
and Efficiency Estimates for the National Basketball Association.” Scottish Journal of
Political Economy, forthcoming. Berri,
David J., Stacey L. Brook, and Martin B. Schmidt. (2007) “Does One Simply
Need to Score to Score?” International Journal of
Sport Finance, 2, n4: (October). Krautmann,
Anthony and David J. Berri. (2007). “Can We Find It
at the Concessions? Understanding Price Elasticity in Professional Sports.” Journal
of Sports Economics,8, n2; (April):183-91. Schmidt, Martin B. and David J. Berri.(2006) “What Takes Them Out to the Ball Game?” Journal of Sports
Economics, 7, n2; (May): 222-233. Berri,
David J., and Martin B. Schmidt. (2006). “On the Road with the National
Basketball Association’s Superstar Externality.” Journal of Sports
Economics,7, n4; (November): 347-358. Berri,
David J., and Anthony Krautmann. (2006).
"Shirking on the Court: Testing for the Dis-Incentive
Effects of Guaranteed Pay." Economic Inquiry. 44, n3; (July): 536-546. Schmidt, Martin B. and
David J. Berri. (2005) “Concentration of Playing
Talent: Evolution in Major League Baseball.” Journal of Sports
Economics, 6, n4; (November):
412-419. Berri, David J., Stacey L. Brook, Aju
Fenn, Bernd Frick, and Roberto Vicente-Mayoral.
(2005). “The Short Supply of Tall People: Explaining Competitive
Imbalance in the National Basketball Association.” Journal of Economics
Issues, v39, n4; (December):
1029-1041. Berri, David J. and Erick Eschker.
(2005). “Performance When It Counts? The Myth of the Prime-Time Performer in
the NBA. Journal of Economics
Issues, v39, n3; (September):
798-807. Schmidt, Martin B. and David J. Berri.
(2004). “Another Look at Competition: A Regime Switching Approach. Applied Economics, 36: 2453-2460. Schmidt, Martin B. and
David J. Berri.(2004).
“Convergence and Clustering in Major League Baseball: The Haves and Haves
Not?” Berri, David J. and Todd Jewell. (2004). “Wage Inequality
and Firm Performance: Examining a Natural Experiment from Professional
Basketball.” Atlantic Economic
Journal, 32, n2; June: 130-139. Schmidt, Martin B. and
David J. Berri.(2004).
“The Impact of Labor Strikes on Consumer Demand: An Application to
Professional Sports.” American Economic Review, 94, n.1: March: 344-357. Berri, David J., Martin B. Schmidt, and Stacey L. Brook.(2004). “Stars At The Gate: The Impact of Star
Power on NBA Gate Revenues” Schmidt, Martin B. and
David J. Berri. (2003). “On the Evolution of
Competitive Balance: The Impact of an Increasing Global Search.” Economic Inquiry, 41, n4; October: 692-704. Cutler, Harvey, David J. Berri and Terutomo Ozawa.
(2003). “Market Recycling in Labor-Intensive Goods, Flying-Geese Style: An Empirical Analysis of
East Asian Exports to the U.S.” Journal of Asian
Economics 14, n1; February: 35-50. Berri, David J. and Martin B. Schmidt. (2002).
“Instrumental vs. Bounded Rationality: The Case of Major League
Baseball and the National Basketball Association.” Schmidt, Martin B. and
David J. Berri. (2002). “Competitive Balance and
Market Size in Major League Baseball: A Response to Baseball’s
Blue Ribbon Panel.” Review of Industrial
Organization, 21, n1; August:
41-54. Schmidt, Martin B. and
David J. Berri. (2002). “The Impact of the 1981 and
1994-95 Strikes on Major League Baseball Attendance: A Time-Series Analysis.” Schmidt, Martin B. and
David J. Berri. (2001). “Competitive Balance and
Attendance: The Case of Major League Baseball.” Berri,
David J. and Christopher R. Adams. (2000). “The Social and Economic Impact of
Weather Information: A
Case Study of the Surface Transportation Industries”; Berri, David J. (1999). “Who is Most Valuable? Measuring
the Player’s Production of Wins in the National Basketball Association.” Managerial and Decision
Economics, 20, n8; Fall: 411-427. Berri, David J. and Terutomo
Ozawa.(1997). "Pax
Americana and Asian Exports: Revealed Trends of Comparative Advantage
Recycling." Additional
manuscripts published Berri,
David J. “A Simple Measure of Worker Productivity in the National Basketball
Association.” in The Business of Sport, eds. Brad Humphreys
and Dennis Howard, editors, 3 volumes, Westport, Conn.: Praeger.
forthcoming in 2008. Berri,
David J.(2007). “Back to Back Evaluation on the
Gridiron.” in Statistical Thinking in Sport, eds. James H.
Albert and Ruud H. Koning,
(pp. 235-256). Chapman & Hall/CRC: 235-256. Berri,
David. J. (2006). “Labor Economics on the Hardwood: the NBA.” in Handbook on the Economics of Sport edited by
Wladimir Andreff and
Stefan Szymanski; Edward Elgar Publishing Limited:
523-529. Berri, David J. (2005) “Economics and the National Basketball
Association: Surveying the Literature at the Tip-off.” Berri, David J. (2004) “Is There a Short Supply of Tall
People in the College Game?” in Economics
of Collegiate Sports; eds. John Fizel and Rodney Fort; Praeger
Publishers: 211-223. Berri, David J. and Stacey L. Brook. (1999). “Trading
Players in the National Basketball Association: For Better or Worse?" April 11, 2006 As
I compiled this list a thought came to me. In The Wages of Wins we
spend a fair amount of time using the productivity data generated in sports
to tell stories about people who bring us the games we love. I thought
it might be interesting to look at the story my productivity data
tells. Okay, this is probably only interesting to me and if you found
this essay tucked away here at the bottom of this page.... well, you probably
need to get back to work or find something more entertaining to occupy your
time. Of
course, now that your here, let’s walk through the data. If we count the
forthcoming work, I currently have 21 papers published in refereed journals.
I received my Ph.D. in the summer of 1997, so I have published about 2.3
papers per year over the course of my career. Is that good or bad?
Currently I am working on research with my CSUB colleague Abbas
Grammy examining the quantity of research produced by economists in the
California State University system. Our research indicates that on
average an economist employed at the many campuses in the California State
University system publishes one paper every three years in refereed journals.
Every three years I publish about seven papers, so relative to my peers in
the Cal-State system, I am a bit more productive. Steve Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics,
publishes five papers every year, or fifteen papers
every three years. So relative to him... well, I get to make excuses
for why I am not so productive. As we state in the book, good or bad
depends upon your point of reference. So if I ignore the amazing
productivity of Steve Levitt and economists like
him, I can sort of feel good about myself. Beyond
my publication rate, we can also see that virtually all of my work is
co-authored. Over the course of my career I have published research with
eleven different writers, with Martin Schmidt being my most frequent
collaborator. In all, Marty and I have published twelve papers
together. One can look at this as I work well with others, or lack the
skills to complete projects by myself. I like the “works well with
others” story, although my many co-authors might play up the “lacking skills”
angle. One
final issue is who publishes the academic work I write. We economists
love to rank journals – actually we love to rank everything, but that is
another story -- and most rankings would rate my one publication in The
American Economic Review and my two papers in Economic Inquiry as
my best. Of my remaining eighteen papers in refereed journals,
one-third appeared in the Journal of Sports Economics.
Three times my work has appeared in Applied Economics and twice in the
Journal of Economic Issues. My remaining seven publications have
appeared in seven different journals. In all, twelve different journals
have published my work. Not sure what story that stat
tells. There are more than 400 journals in economics, so apparently I
have some writing to do if I am going to land in all of these. |
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