Research Description
My research encompasses managerial economic issues in sport, largely relating to the market power of sports leagues in the U.S. The organization of sport also provides a data-rich context for exploring economic phenomena and managerial issues that affect all firms. My research can be characterized under three primary branches: 1) Labor & Personnel Economics, 2) Industrial Organization, and 3) Public Policy and Economic Development.
You can find a list of my publications below, or find my CV above for a complete list of projects. If you do not have access to the journals linked for each paper and would like a copy, please contact me through email. Some of my papers below have older working versions available to download for free at my SSRN Author Page or IDEAS/RePEc Page. See below for links.
Curriculum Vitate (PDF)
Google Scholar Page
SSRN author page
IDEAS/RePEc page
Publications (*student co-author)
40. Mills, B.M. & Fort, R. (2022). Fan preference heterogeneity in professional sport. Journal of Sports Economics. [Article Link]
39. Sung, H., Mills, B.M., & Lee, Y.H. (2022). Moments of competitive balance in Major League Soccer. Journal of Sports Economics, 23, 329-354. [Article Link]
38. Holden, J., Day, G., & Mills, B.M. (2022). Fraud on any market. Indiana Law Journal, 97, 659-706. [Working Paper Link]
37. Mills, B.M. (2021). A peculiarity that positions sport management. Journal of Sport Management, 35, 581-593. [Article Link]
36. Kellison, T. & Mills, B.M. (2021). Voter intentions and political implications of legislated stadium subsidies. Sport Management Review, 24, 181-203. [Article Link]
35. Peeters, T., Mills, B.M., Pennings, E., & Sung, H.* (2021). Manager migration, learning-by-hiring, and cultural distance in international soccer. Global Strategy Journal, 11, 494-519. [Article Link] [Replication Files]
34. Finegan, D.*, Mills, B.M., & Stone, D. (2020). Pulling starters. Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics, 89, 1-17. [Article Link]
33. Salaga, S., Mills, B.M., & Tainsky, S. (2020). Employer-assigned workload and human capital deterioration: Evidence from the National Football League. Journal of Sports Economics, 21, 628-659. [Article Link]
32. Tainsky, S., Mills, B.M., Hans, Z.*, & Lee, K. (2020). On the road with minor league baseball externalities. Journal of Sport Management, 34, 120-129. [Article Link]
31. Mills, B.M., Rosentraub, M., & Jakar, G.* (2019). Tax revenue elasticity in Florida: Spatial effects of county-level room tax rate variation. Tourism Management Perspectives, 31, 174-183. [Article Link]
30. Sung, H.*, Mills, B.M., & Mondello, M. (2019) Local broadcast viewership in Major League Soccer. Journal of Sport Management, 33, 106-118. [Article Link]
29. Lopez, M. & Mills, B.M. (2019). Opportunistic shirking behavior during unpaid overtime. Applied Economics Letters, 26, 608-612. [Article Link]
28. Mills, B.M. & Salaga, S. (2018). A natural experiment for efficient markets: Information quality and influential agents. Journal of Financial Markets, 40, 23-39. [Article Link]
27. Wendling, E.* & Mills, B.M. (2018). Mitigation of relative age effects through targeted policy intervention: A natural experiment from professional tennis. Social Science Quarterly, 99, 1496-1509. [Article Link]
26. Sung, H.* & Mills, B.M. (2018). Estimation of game-level attendance in Major League Soccer: Outcome uncertainty and absolute quality considerations. Sport Management Review, 21, 519-532. [Article Link]
25. Mills, B.M. & Fort, R.D. (2018). Team-level time series analysis in MLB, the NBA, and the NHL: Attendance and outcome uncertainty. Journal of Sports Economics, 19, 911-933. [Article Link]
24. Mills, B.M. & Winfree, J.A. (2018). Athlete pay and competitive balance in college athletics. Review of Industrial Organization, 52, 211-229. [Article Link]
23. Mills, B.M., Tainsky, S., Green, B.C., & Leopkey, B. (2018). The ultimatum game in the college football rivalry context. Journal of Sport Management, 32, 11-23. [Article Link]
22. Mondello, M., Mills, B.M., & Tainsky, S. (2017). Shared market competition and broadcast viewership in the National Football League. Journal of Sport Management, 31, 562-574. [Article Link]
21. Juravich, M. & Mills, B.M. (2017). Exogenous policy shocks and logic centrality shifts: NBA policy and NCAA outcomes. Journal of Sport Management, 31, 452-465. [Article Link]
20. Mills, B.M. (2017). Technological innovations in monitoring and evaluation: Evidence of performance impacts among Major League Baseball umpires. Labour Economics, 46, 189-199. [Article Link]
19. Sung, H.*, Mills, B.M., & Tainsky, S. (2017). From schadenfreude to mitfreude? Estimating viewership loss and rivalrous relationships in otherwise neutral markets. Sport Management Review, 20, 159-169. [Article Link]
18. Mills, B.M. (2017). Policy changes in Major League Baseball: Improved agent behavior and ancillary productivity outcomes. Economic Inquiry, 55, 1104-1118. [Article Link]
17. Mills, B.M., Salaga, S., & Tainsky, S. (2016). NBA primary ticket market consumers: Ex ante expectations and consumer market origination. Journal of Sport Management, 30, 538-552. [Article Link]
16. Sorokina, E.*, Semrad, K., & Mills, B.M. (2016). Practical sales forecasting: Potential solutions for independently owned hotels. Tourism Analysis, 21, 631-644. [Article Link]
15. Mills, B.M. & Winfree, J.A. (2016). Market power, exclusive rights, and substitution effects in sports. The Antitrust Bulletin, 61, 423-433. [Article Link]
14. Mills, B.M., Mondello, M., & Tainsky, S. (2016). Competition in shared markets and Major League Baseball Broadcast Viewership. Applied Economics, 48, 3020-3032. [Article Link]
13.Tainsky, S., Xu, J.*, Mills, B.M., & Salaga, S. (2016). Contingent interest in the leauge: Home team postseason probability and out-of-market television demand in the NFL. Review of Industrial Organization, 48, 29-43. [Article Link]
12. Mills, B.M. & Salaga, S.H. (2015). Historical time series perspectives on competitive balance in NCAA Division I basketball. Journal of Sports Economics, 16, 614-646. [Article Link]
11. Tainsky, S., Mills, B.M. & Winfree, J. (2015). An examination of potential discrimination among MLB umpires. Journal of Sports Economics, 16, 353-374. [Article Link]
10. Mills, B.M., Winfree, J.A., Rosentraub, M.S., & Sorokina, E.* (2015) Fan substitution between North American professional sports leagues. Applied Economics Letters, 22, 563-566. [Article Link]
9. Mills, B.M. & Rosentraub, M. (2014). The National Hockey League and cross-border fandom: Fan substitution and international boundaries. Journal of Sports Economics, 15, 497-518. [Article Link]
8. Mills, B.M. (2014) Social pressure at the plate: Inequality aversion, status, and mere exposure. Managerial and Decision Economics, 35, 387-403. [Article Link]
7. Tainsky, S., Xu, J.*, Salaga, S., & Mills, B.M. (2014). Spillover benefits to local enthusiasm: Increases in league-wide interest as a consequence of local sports team competitiveness. Journal of Economics and Business, 74, 1-10. [Article Link]
6. Mills, B.M., Kwak, D.H., Lee, J.S.*, & Lee, W.Y. (2014). Signaling competition in fantasy football advertisements: The mediating role of expected opponent quality. International Gambling Studies, 14, 161-180. [Article Link]
5. Mills, B.M., Rosentraub, M., Winfree, J., & Cantor, M.* (2014). Fiscal outcomes and tax impacts from stadium financing strategies in Arlington, Texas. Public Money and Management, 34, 145-152. [Article Link] [Appendix]
4. Mills, B.M. & Fort, R.D. (2014). League-level attendance and outcome uncertainty in U.S. pro sports leagues. Economic Inquiry, 52, 205-218. [Article Link]
3. Mills, B.M. & Rosentraub, M. (2013). Hosting mega-events: A guide to the evaluation of development effects in integrated metropolitan regions. Tourism Management, 34, 238-246. [Article Link]
2. Babiak, K., Mills, B.M., Tainsky, S. & Juravich, M. (2012). An investigation into professional athlete philanthropy: Is charity part of the game? Journal of Sport Management, 26, 159-176. [Article Link]
1. Mills, B.M. & Salaga, S. (2011). MLB Hall of fame voting patterns and tree ensembles: An application to discrimination. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, Volume 7 (4). [Article Link]
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Working Papers:
Mills, B.M. Research productivity and impact in sport management faculty careers. [Full Article PDF]
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Under Review/Revision:
Mills, B.M. Research productivity and impact in sport management faculty careers. Undergoing Revisions.
Flannagan, K.*, Mills, B.M., & Goldstone, R. The psychophysics of home plate umpire calls in baseball. Undergoing Revisions.
Farnell, A.*, Berri, D., Mills, B.M., O'Sullivan, V., & Simmons, R. Assessing the role of fatigue and multitasking on worker performance: Evidence from MLB pitchers. Undergoing Revisions.
Mills, B.M., Bopp, T., & Turick, R., Racially congruent leadership and firm performance: Evidence from collegiate football. In 1st Review.
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Works in Progress:
Mills, B.M. & Simmons, R. Performance measurement precision and heterogeneous externalities in coincident labor markets. 30 Page Manuscript.
Wells, J., Mills, B.M., & Croom, R. Leadership teams in culturally heterogeneous contexts. Data Analysis Stage.
Mills, B.M. Peer learning and performance convergence in baseball umpires. Data Anaylsis Stage.
Mills, B.M. Rational shirking as team performance management. Data Anaylsis Stage.
Juravich, M., Mills, B.M., & Salaga, S. Escalation of commitment in executive decision making in professional sport. Data Analysis Stage.
My research encompasses managerial economic issues in sport, largely relating to the market power of sports leagues in the U.S. The organization of sport also provides a data-rich context for exploring economic phenomena and managerial issues that affect all firms. My research can be characterized under three primary branches: 1) Labor & Personnel Economics, 2) Industrial Organization, and 3) Public Policy and Economic Development.
You can find a list of my publications below, or find my CV above for a complete list of projects. If you do not have access to the journals linked for each paper and would like a copy, please contact me through email. Some of my papers below have older working versions available to download for free at my SSRN Author Page or IDEAS/RePEc Page. See below for links.
Curriculum Vitate (PDF)
Google Scholar Page
SSRN author page
IDEAS/RePEc page
Publications (*student co-author)
40. Mills, B.M. & Fort, R. (2022). Fan preference heterogeneity in professional sport. Journal of Sports Economics. [Article Link]
39. Sung, H., Mills, B.M., & Lee, Y.H. (2022). Moments of competitive balance in Major League Soccer. Journal of Sports Economics, 23, 329-354. [Article Link]
38. Holden, J., Day, G., & Mills, B.M. (2022). Fraud on any market. Indiana Law Journal, 97, 659-706. [Working Paper Link]
37. Mills, B.M. (2021). A peculiarity that positions sport management. Journal of Sport Management, 35, 581-593. [Article Link]
36. Kellison, T. & Mills, B.M. (2021). Voter intentions and political implications of legislated stadium subsidies. Sport Management Review, 24, 181-203. [Article Link]
35. Peeters, T., Mills, B.M., Pennings, E., & Sung, H.* (2021). Manager migration, learning-by-hiring, and cultural distance in international soccer. Global Strategy Journal, 11, 494-519. [Article Link] [Replication Files]
34. Finegan, D.*, Mills, B.M., & Stone, D. (2020). Pulling starters. Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics, 89, 1-17. [Article Link]
33. Salaga, S., Mills, B.M., & Tainsky, S. (2020). Employer-assigned workload and human capital deterioration: Evidence from the National Football League. Journal of Sports Economics, 21, 628-659. [Article Link]
32. Tainsky, S., Mills, B.M., Hans, Z.*, & Lee, K. (2020). On the road with minor league baseball externalities. Journal of Sport Management, 34, 120-129. [Article Link]
31. Mills, B.M., Rosentraub, M., & Jakar, G.* (2019). Tax revenue elasticity in Florida: Spatial effects of county-level room tax rate variation. Tourism Management Perspectives, 31, 174-183. [Article Link]
30. Sung, H.*, Mills, B.M., & Mondello, M. (2019) Local broadcast viewership in Major League Soccer. Journal of Sport Management, 33, 106-118. [Article Link]
29. Lopez, M. & Mills, B.M. (2019). Opportunistic shirking behavior during unpaid overtime. Applied Economics Letters, 26, 608-612. [Article Link]
28. Mills, B.M. & Salaga, S. (2018). A natural experiment for efficient markets: Information quality and influential agents. Journal of Financial Markets, 40, 23-39. [Article Link]
27. Wendling, E.* & Mills, B.M. (2018). Mitigation of relative age effects through targeted policy intervention: A natural experiment from professional tennis. Social Science Quarterly, 99, 1496-1509. [Article Link]
26. Sung, H.* & Mills, B.M. (2018). Estimation of game-level attendance in Major League Soccer: Outcome uncertainty and absolute quality considerations. Sport Management Review, 21, 519-532. [Article Link]
25. Mills, B.M. & Fort, R.D. (2018). Team-level time series analysis in MLB, the NBA, and the NHL: Attendance and outcome uncertainty. Journal of Sports Economics, 19, 911-933. [Article Link]
24. Mills, B.M. & Winfree, J.A. (2018). Athlete pay and competitive balance in college athletics. Review of Industrial Organization, 52, 211-229. [Article Link]
23. Mills, B.M., Tainsky, S., Green, B.C., & Leopkey, B. (2018). The ultimatum game in the college football rivalry context. Journal of Sport Management, 32, 11-23. [Article Link]
22. Mondello, M., Mills, B.M., & Tainsky, S. (2017). Shared market competition and broadcast viewership in the National Football League. Journal of Sport Management, 31, 562-574. [Article Link]
21. Juravich, M. & Mills, B.M. (2017). Exogenous policy shocks and logic centrality shifts: NBA policy and NCAA outcomes. Journal of Sport Management, 31, 452-465. [Article Link]
20. Mills, B.M. (2017). Technological innovations in monitoring and evaluation: Evidence of performance impacts among Major League Baseball umpires. Labour Economics, 46, 189-199. [Article Link]
19. Sung, H.*, Mills, B.M., & Tainsky, S. (2017). From schadenfreude to mitfreude? Estimating viewership loss and rivalrous relationships in otherwise neutral markets. Sport Management Review, 20, 159-169. [Article Link]
18. Mills, B.M. (2017). Policy changes in Major League Baseball: Improved agent behavior and ancillary productivity outcomes. Economic Inquiry, 55, 1104-1118. [Article Link]
17. Mills, B.M., Salaga, S., & Tainsky, S. (2016). NBA primary ticket market consumers: Ex ante expectations and consumer market origination. Journal of Sport Management, 30, 538-552. [Article Link]
16. Sorokina, E.*, Semrad, K., & Mills, B.M. (2016). Practical sales forecasting: Potential solutions for independently owned hotels. Tourism Analysis, 21, 631-644. [Article Link]
15. Mills, B.M. & Winfree, J.A. (2016). Market power, exclusive rights, and substitution effects in sports. The Antitrust Bulletin, 61, 423-433. [Article Link]
14. Mills, B.M., Mondello, M., & Tainsky, S. (2016). Competition in shared markets and Major League Baseball Broadcast Viewership. Applied Economics, 48, 3020-3032. [Article Link]
13.Tainsky, S., Xu, J.*, Mills, B.M., & Salaga, S. (2016). Contingent interest in the leauge: Home team postseason probability and out-of-market television demand in the NFL. Review of Industrial Organization, 48, 29-43. [Article Link]
12. Mills, B.M. & Salaga, S.H. (2015). Historical time series perspectives on competitive balance in NCAA Division I basketball. Journal of Sports Economics, 16, 614-646. [Article Link]
11. Tainsky, S., Mills, B.M. & Winfree, J. (2015). An examination of potential discrimination among MLB umpires. Journal of Sports Economics, 16, 353-374. [Article Link]
10. Mills, B.M., Winfree, J.A., Rosentraub, M.S., & Sorokina, E.* (2015) Fan substitution between North American professional sports leagues. Applied Economics Letters, 22, 563-566. [Article Link]
9. Mills, B.M. & Rosentraub, M. (2014). The National Hockey League and cross-border fandom: Fan substitution and international boundaries. Journal of Sports Economics, 15, 497-518. [Article Link]
8. Mills, B.M. (2014) Social pressure at the plate: Inequality aversion, status, and mere exposure. Managerial and Decision Economics, 35, 387-403. [Article Link]
7. Tainsky, S., Xu, J.*, Salaga, S., & Mills, B.M. (2014). Spillover benefits to local enthusiasm: Increases in league-wide interest as a consequence of local sports team competitiveness. Journal of Economics and Business, 74, 1-10. [Article Link]
6. Mills, B.M., Kwak, D.H., Lee, J.S.*, & Lee, W.Y. (2014). Signaling competition in fantasy football advertisements: The mediating role of expected opponent quality. International Gambling Studies, 14, 161-180. [Article Link]
5. Mills, B.M., Rosentraub, M., Winfree, J., & Cantor, M.* (2014). Fiscal outcomes and tax impacts from stadium financing strategies in Arlington, Texas. Public Money and Management, 34, 145-152. [Article Link] [Appendix]
4. Mills, B.M. & Fort, R.D. (2014). League-level attendance and outcome uncertainty in U.S. pro sports leagues. Economic Inquiry, 52, 205-218. [Article Link]
3. Mills, B.M. & Rosentraub, M. (2013). Hosting mega-events: A guide to the evaluation of development effects in integrated metropolitan regions. Tourism Management, 34, 238-246. [Article Link]
2. Babiak, K., Mills, B.M., Tainsky, S. & Juravich, M. (2012). An investigation into professional athlete philanthropy: Is charity part of the game? Journal of Sport Management, 26, 159-176. [Article Link]
1. Mills, B.M. & Salaga, S. (2011). MLB Hall of fame voting patterns and tree ensembles: An application to discrimination. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, Volume 7 (4). [Article Link]
---------------------------------------------
Working Papers:
Mills, B.M. Research productivity and impact in sport management faculty careers. [Full Article PDF]
---------------------------------------------
Under Review/Revision:
Mills, B.M. Research productivity and impact in sport management faculty careers. Undergoing Revisions.
Flannagan, K.*, Mills, B.M., & Goldstone, R. The psychophysics of home plate umpire calls in baseball. Undergoing Revisions.
Farnell, A.*, Berri, D., Mills, B.M., O'Sullivan, V., & Simmons, R. Assessing the role of fatigue and multitasking on worker performance: Evidence from MLB pitchers. Undergoing Revisions.
Mills, B.M., Bopp, T., & Turick, R., Racially congruent leadership and firm performance: Evidence from collegiate football. In 1st Review.
---------------------------------------------
Works in Progress:
Mills, B.M. & Simmons, R. Performance measurement precision and heterogeneous externalities in coincident labor markets. 30 Page Manuscript.
Wells, J., Mills, B.M., & Croom, R. Leadership teams in culturally heterogeneous contexts. Data Analysis Stage.
Mills, B.M. Peer learning and performance convergence in baseball umpires. Data Anaylsis Stage.
Mills, B.M. Rational shirking as team performance management. Data Anaylsis Stage.
Juravich, M., Mills, B.M., & Salaga, S. Escalation of commitment in executive decision making in professional sport. Data Analysis Stage.
