Ricardo Manuel Santos, Ph.D.
- 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
"Modelling Strategies in Sports" (Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol.52, No.2-3, 2024).
“FIFA World Cup: a case of (in)efficiency of the betting market” (International Journal of Sport Finance, Vol.15, No.3, 2020).
“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.
Working Papers
“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”.
“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