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Jorge Tovar

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Profesor @EconomiaUAndes. PhD @BerkeleyEcon (2004). Fútbol (@golyfutbol) y fotografía (Instagram: tovarjorge).

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Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Jul 18

James Reade keynote talk on ranking football players

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Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Jul 18

César Mora exploring the role of sporting infrastructure in high school students in Peru

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Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Jul 18

Starting de second day of sessions in the Latin American Sports Economics Conference, PUCP - Lima.

Roberto Álvarez, determinants of transfer fees in Chilean football

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Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Jul 17

You're welcome. Many papers are in a preliminary stage, but I understand the conference is being recorded. If so, I'll share the link when available.

Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Jul 17

Elina Ibragimova on risky behavior studying volleyball 🏐

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Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Jul 17

Juan Tena (U. Liverpool) studying VAR and its biases

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Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Jul 17

Daría Tabashnikova on gender differences.and peer effects
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Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Jul 17

Renzo Álvarez on why some teams apparently overperform despite having less talent

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Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Jul 17

Keynote speech, Brad Humphreys, on changes taking place in the sports betting market

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Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Jul 17

Guillermo Herrera (PUCP) exploring the role of alternative indicators (health expenditure) to understand Olympic performance in developing countries.

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Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Jul 17

Bernd Frick, Weightlifting to understand gender, risk tolerance and overconfidence lasec2025.pucp.edu.pe

Second Latin American Sports Economics Conference 2

Second Latin American Sports Economics Conference (LASEC-2), July 17-18, 2025, at PUCP, Lima. Join top experts discussing the economic impact of sports in Latin America.

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Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Jul 17

Minutes away from starting the sessions at LASEC-2 in Lima. Lot's of hard work behind. Happy.

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Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Jul 11

Next week we'll be in Lima for the 2nd Latin American Sports Economics Conference. Check out the outstanding roster we have final at lasec2025.pucp.edu.pe

Second Latin American Sports Economics Conference 2

Second Latin American Sports Economics Conference (LASEC-2), July 17-18, 2025, at PUCP, Lima. Join top experts discussing the economic impact of sports in Latin America.

lasec2025.pucp.edu.pe

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David Perez-Reyna @davidperezreyna.bsky.social · May 29

1/7 🧵 New paper with Jorge Tovar (@JorgeATovar) and Tomás Rodríguez. When Colombian regulators introduced stricter liquidity rules (NSFR) in 2020, banks initially increased their market power before competition ultimately prevailed. Here's what happened... 🏦📊

Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Mar 3

A post I wrote for the Spanish Sports Economics Society (in Spanish)
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El Origen de El Dorado

SEED - Sociedad Española de Economía del Deporte

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Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Feb 20

The deadline is approaching. 2nd Latin American Sports Economics Conference. See you in Lima!!

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Call for papers | Second Latin American Sports Economics Conference (LASEC – 2), deadline: 01 de marzo de 2025 | Departamento Académico de Economía

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Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Dec 12

Sometimes one writes and is last to find out it's already been published.

Happy to share 'The Geopolitical Economy of Football' edited by Chadwick, Widdop and Goldman which includes my chapter 'Colombia's Failure to Host the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

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David Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · Dec 1

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Once upon a time, an economist who got a prize in Sweden told us that if college athletes were paid like employees that competitive balance would be harmed.

Apparently the prize didn't grant someone knowledge of basic sports economics!

Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Nov 25

Dos dieces mejor que uno · Gol y Fútbol - golyfutbol.com/post/2024/11...

Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Nov 24

Yes, it takes extra time ... But a tower of Babel is not the optimum outcome

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Nov 24

Non-native English speakers need 50% more time to write a paper

When they do, they face a 2.5 times higher chance of being rejected because of language

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Reposted by Franz Essl, Pablo Brañas‐Garza, Catherine Moury , and 4 more Franz Essl, Pablo Brañas‐Garza, Catherine Moury, Pavel Gregorić, Anton Grau Larsen, Séverine Sofio, Jorge Tovar

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Nov 24

Non-native English speakers need 50% more time to write a paper

When they do, they face a 2.5 times higher chance of being rejected because of language

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Reposted by Lisa Bryant, Nelson Lichtenstein, Mark Hallerberg , and 4 more Lisa Bryant, Nelson Lichtenstein, Mark Hallerberg, Xin Zhao, Thomas J. Roulet, Jillian Schwedler, Jorge Tovar

Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Nov 23

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

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Pete Groothuis @petegroothuis.bsky.social · Nov 22

ROSES is always a good way to end the week. Here is my ROSES talk with Tibi and Mark.

ROSES CLXII Pete Groothuis, App State Univ, The changing distribution of NBA salaries over time

YouTube video by James Reade

Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Nov 22

Mi columna de esta semana.en El Espectador .. aunque James andaba como lesionado

¿Por qué no utilizar simultáneamente a los mejores? ¿Así los dos jueguen de diez?

Dos dieces mejor que uno · Gol y Fútbol - golyfutbol.com/post/2024/11...

Dos dieces mejor que uno · Gol y Fútbol

Analítica de datos del fútbol: Estadística, economía y también mucha historia del deporte rey.

Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Nov 21

It's coming, 17-18 July 2025.

The Second Latin American Sports Economics Conference --- PUCP, Lima (Peru)

More information to come (including the call for papers). For now, save the dates.

Reposted by Paul Downward, Jorge Tovar

James Reade @jjreade.bsky.social · Nov 21

For the last 4 years and 8 months I've been running an online seminar series: ROSES = Reading Online Sport Economic Seminars. It's brought me a huge amount of joy - new connections, fascinating people, great opportunities.

I've been posting about it on Twitter up to now. Time now to start here...

Jorge Tovar @jorgeatovar.bsky.social · Nov 14

Aquí todavía no se habla en español?