Ricardo Manuel Santos, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor , Economics
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I am from Portugal and completed my Ph.D in Economics at the University of Rochester in 2009. My dissertation was about Dynamic Labor Supply and Strategies. Concluding my Ph.D, I spent one year working at ITAM in Mexico City, and I arrived at Trinity in 2010.
My research has continued my focus on dynamic implications of labor supply decisions, exploring its effects on contemporaneous earnings, and it's role of insurance against future income shocks. Together with my co-authors, we also explore the effects of taxation in this dynamic environment and it's strong implications to the measurement of labor supply elasticities.
I also work on Sports Economics with topics that include optimal coaching strategies, competitive balance in sports competitions, and forecasting success. My most recent research explores penalty kick data to test and evaluate economic theories such as the Minimax Theorem, and the presence of a 1st Mover Advantage.
- Ph.D in Economics, University of Rochester
- M.A. in Economics, University of Rochester
- Diploma (B.A.) in Economics, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
- “Effects of Psychological Pressure on First-Mover Advantage in Competitive Environments: evidence from penalty shootouts” (Contemporary Economic Policy, forthcoming, http://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12588, 2023).
- “Euro Cup against Copa America? A cross-regional tournament comparison” (The International Journal of Sport and Society, forthcoming, Vol.14, No.1, 2023).
- “FIFA World Cup: a case of (in)efficiency of the betting market” (International Journal of Sport Finance, Vol.15, No.3, 2020).
- “A Forecasting Model of Success at the Euro Tournaments: The Role of Team’s Performance at Qualifying Games” (Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Vol.21, No.8, 2019).
- “Dynamic effects of labor supply: a mechanism explaining cross-sectional differences in hours” (Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 17, No.4, 2014).
- “Optimal Soccer Strategies” (Economic Inquiry, Vol.52, No.1, 2014).
- “Contributions for an Economic Perspective on School Choice” (Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research, Vol.13, No.3, 2012); joint with James Nordlund.
- “Cross-sectional differences in the use of time” (International Journal of Economics, Vol.5, No.1, 2011).
Working Papers
- “Optimal Strategies in the Penalty Kick game in soccer: a model that allows players to wait”.
- “Modelling Strategies in Sports”.
- “Gender Differences in the Determinants of Choking Under Pressure: evidence from penalty kicks in soccer”.
- “The Determinants of Choking under pressure in Sports”
- “Labor Supply, Endogenous Wage Dynamics and Tax Policy” (joint with professors Árpád Ábrahám and Jay Hong).
- “Mechanisms explaining the intertemporal effect of hours on labor supply”.
- “Champions League, Bosman Rule, and Competitive Balance in Domestic European Football Leagues” (joint with professor Akira Motomura).
- “Minimax Theorem: evidence from Penalty Kicks under distracting strategies”.
- “Deviations from optimal coaching strategies in the NBA”
In the Media
- El Confidencial (2022)
- KSAT News (2018)
- KUT Texas Public Radio (2018)
- San Antonio Express News (2018)
- FIFA Weekly (2014)
Book Review
- “Sports Through the Lens of Economic History”, by Richard Pomfret and Johnn Wilson (Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol.40, No.2, 2018).
My research focuses are in Macroeconomics and Sports Economics.
- Macroeconomics
- Sports Economics
- Economic Growth
- International Trade
- Money, Credit and Banking
- Co-Editor of the International Journal of Sport and Society
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