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Soccernomics

Saturday, November 9, 2013: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Napoleon B3-C3 (Sheraton New Orleans Hotel)
Usama Abbasi , University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ronan O'Beirne , University of Alabama at Birmingham
Brian Rice , University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mike Sloane , University of Alabama at Birmingham
The purpose of this course is to analyze microeconomic principles and examine the impact of our cognitive limitations on the decision making of homo economicus using soccer as a lens. Students learn how markets function, the economic principles underlying their decisions, and the impact of bounded rationality on those decisions.