PANHELLENIC ASSOCIATION OF SPORTS ECONOMISTS & MANAGERS (P.A.S.E.M.)

 

 

FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 

«THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF SPORTS»

 

 

Athens, Greece, February 19-20, 2001

 

Co-organizer: Athens University for Business & Economics

 

Sponsored by

 

·                      General Secretariat of Sports (Ministry of Culture).

·                      Agrotiki Asfalistiki

·                      Kampili Advertising

         

Venue: Athens University for Business & Economics, 76 Patision Street

 

Place:    AMPHITHEATERANTONIADI

 


PROGRAM

 

Monday, February 19, 2001

 

09:00 – 10:00 Registration

 

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome

Andreas Kintis, Rector, Athens University for Business & Economics (AUBE)

Gregory T. Papanikos, President, PASEM

 

10:15 – 12:15 Session I: Round Table: The Organization and the Economic Impact of The Olympic Games of Athens 2004

Chairperson: Andreas Kintis, Rector, Athens University for Business & Economics

 

Professor George Alogoskoufis, MP (New Democratic Party)

George Sakellion, Secretary General of Youth

Nikos Exarchos, Secretary General of Sports

Kostas Kartalis, Secretary General of Olympic Games

Gregory T. Papanikos, President, PASEM

 

12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break

 

12:30 – 14:30 SESSION II: The Experience of Olympic Games

Chairperson: Andrew Yiannakis (University of Connecticut, USA)

 

1.   Robert Baade (Lake Forest College, USA) Assessing the Economic Impact of the Summer Olympic Games: The Experience of Los Angeles and Atlanta

2.   Shayne Quick (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) & Maria Tzelepi (Athens, Greece) The Effectiveness of the “Event Leadership” Training Course in the Sydney Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games – Evaluation.

3.   Holger Preuss (University of Mainz, Germany) Rarely Considered Economic Aspects of Cities Hosting the Olympic Games

 

 

14:30 - 15:30 BREAK

 

15:30 – 17:30 SESSION III: The Economics of Football

Chairperson:  Vassilios Patsouratis, Associate Professor, Athens University of Business and Economics, Greece

 

1.   Stefan Szymanski (Imperial College Management School, UK) Competitive Balance and Income Redistribution in Team Sports

2.   Wladimir Andreff (University of Paris I, France) The Evolving Structure of Finance in the European Professional Sports

3.   Robert Simmons (University of Salford, UK) What Determines Attendance Demand for Football?

 

17:30 – 20:00 General Assembly and the Election of the First Board of Directors of PASEM (Members only)

 

21:30 DINNER (BY INVITATION ONLY)


Tuesday, February 20, 2001

 

09:00 – 10:30 SESSION IV: Methodological and Educational

Issues in Sports Research

Chairperson: Michalis Atsalakis, TEI of Crete, Greece

 

1.   Andrew Yiannakis Murdy (University of Connecticut, USA), Yiannis Douvis Murdy (University of Connecticut, USA)  & James Murdy (University of Connecticut, USA) The Perceived Impacts of Sport.

2.   Marcus Kurscheidt (University of Paderborn, Germany) Evaluating, Bidding for, and Managing Sports Mega Events: Theoretical and Methodological Issues of an Integrated Approach to the Economic Analysis of Sporting Events.

3.   Athanasios Kriemadis (University of Thessalia, Greece) and  Emery Paul (University of Northumbria at Newcastle, U.K.) Strategic Planning in University Athletic Departments in the United Kingdom.

 

 

10:30 – 12:00 SESSION V: Management and Marketing

Chairperson: Dimitris Terzakis, TEI of Crete, Greece.

 

1.   Robert Lentell (University of North London, England) Front-Office and Back Room: Quality Management and Sport Services

2.   Ingo Kipker, Ingo (Dipl. – Kaufm., Düsseldorf, Germany) Five Years after the Bosman-Ruling – Empirical Evidence & Solutions for European Soccer Leagues and Implications for Corporate Human Resources Strategies.

3.   Dimitrios Nikolaidis (ARIS Football Club, Greece) Promotional Licensing & Trademark Law.

 

 

12:00 – 12:30 Coffee Break

 

 

12:30 – 13:30 SESSION V: Tourism and Sports

Chairperson: Dimitrios Nikolaidis (ARIS Football Club, Greece)

1.   Laurence Chalip (Griffith University, Australia) Leveraging the Sydney Olympics to Optimize Tourism Benefits.

2.   Michael Weed (University of North London, England) Developing a Sports Tourism Product

3.   Michalis Atsalakis & Dimitris Terzakis (TEI of Crete, Greece) Sports

4.   Tourism: Descriptive Models

 

 

13:30 – 14:30 SESSION VI: Round Table on Postgraduate

Studies in Sports Economics and Management

 

Chairperson: Gregory T. Papanikos, President, PASEM.

 

 

14:30 – 15:00  CLOSING REMARKS