Dennis Coates
Professor, Economics, UMBC
North American Association of Sports Economists
June, 2025
Distinquished Research Award
NAASE Research Award Named in Honor of Dennis Coates & Brad Humphreys
At its meeting on June 22 in San Francisco, the North American Association of Sports Economists’ (NAASE) Executive Committee voted to establish the Coates-Humphreys NAASE Distinguished Research Award and to select you as the inaugural winners. We announced the award at NAASE’s membership meeting later on June 22 and via NAASE’s social media channels.
NAASE’s executive committee is pleased to create this award to honor your distinguished scholarly records in sports economics, your contributions to NAASE including serving as presidents of the organization and your extensive activities connecting NAASE to sports economics communities outside North America, and your service to the broader sports economics field. The award will be given in odd-numbered years, and the selection committee will be previous award winners and the current president of NAASE.
Tim Gindling
Professor, Economics, UMBC; Co-Editor
Oxford University Press, March 30th, 2023
The Job Ladder
Transforming informal work and livelihoods in developing countries
Using a range of countries from the Global South, this book examines heterogeneity within informal work by applying a common conceptual framework and empirical methodology. The country studies use panel data to study the dynamics of worker transitions between formal and heterogeneous informal work. More…
Mike Andrews
Assistant Professor, Economics, UMBC; Co-Editor
University of Chicago Press, February, 2022
The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth
We live in an era in which innovation and entrepreneurship seem ubiquitous, particularly in regions like Silicon Valley, Boston, and the Research Triangle Park. But many metrics of economic growth, such as productivity growth and business dynamism, have been at best modest in recent years. The resolution of this apparent paradox is dramatic heterogeneity across sectors, with some industries seeing robust innovation and entrepreneurship and others seeing stagnation. More…