Thadeu Gasparetto
Assistant Professor
Research Links
Professional Highlights
- Program Academic Coordinator, ‘International Bachelor’s in Business and Economics,’ Higher School of Economics (Saint Petersburg, Russia), 2022.
- Visiting Associate Professor, University of Zurich, 2021.
- Coordinator, Sports Analytics Track, Master Program ‘Management and Analytics for Business,’ Higher School of Economics (Saint Petersburg, Russia), 2020-2022
- Research Fellow at International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy, Higher School of Economics (Saint Petersburg, Russia), 2020-2022
- Visiting Researcher, Birkbeck, University of London, 2016
Degrees
- Ph.D., Sports Economics, University of Vigo (Spain)
- M.S., Sport Management, University of Vigo (Spain)
- B.S., Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (Brazil)
Awards
- Best Lecturer Award, Department of Management, Higher School of Economics (Saint Petersburg, Russia), 2019 and 2020
- Extraordinary PhD Award (2017-18), University of Vigo (Spain), 2019
- CIED Award for the Best Research in Sports Economics, 2018
- CIED Award for the Best Young Researcher in Sports Economics, 2016
Areas of Expertise
- Behavioral Bias in Sports Contexts
- Competitive Balance Analysis
- Econometric Modeling of Sports Demand
- Experimental Economics in Sports
- Financial and Economic Performance of Sports Organizations
- Globalization and Player Mobility
- Labor Market Dynamics in Sports
Research Interests
- Sports Economics
- Behavioral Economics
- Competitive Balance
- Demand for Sports
- Discrimination in Sports
- Experimental Economics
- Labour Market
- Sport Business
- Sport Leagues Design
Committees and Memberships
- Member of the Editorial Board in the Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature Portfolio)
- Member of the International Association of Sports Economists
- Former member of the European Association for Sport Management and Brazilian Association for Sport Management (Associação Brasileira de Gestão do Esporte)
- Member of the Scientific Committee in the 1st Latin American Sports Economics Conference (2023), Congreso Iberoamericano de Economia del Deporte (2019 and 2023), and AMEC Analytics for Management and Economics Conference (2020, 2021 and 2022)
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Thadeu Gasparetto is an Assistant Professor of Sport Management in the School of Sport Sciences at the College of Applied Human Sciences.
Previously, he served as a Senior Lecturer in Sport Business at Leeds Beckett University (United Kingdom), an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Saint Petersburg (Russia), a Research Fellow at the International Laboratory of Intangible-Driven Economy (IDLab/HSE), and Coordinator of the "Sports Analytics" track in the Master’s program "Management and Analytics for Business." He has also participated in academic exchanges and delivered guest lectures in Brazil, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
Dr. Gasparetto earned his PhD from the University of Vigo (Spain), including an exchange period at Birkbeck, University of London (UK) in 2016, while serving as a Junior Research Fellow at HSE (Perm, Russia) from 2016 to 2018. He also holds a Master’s degree in Sports Business Management from the University of Vigo (2014) and a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education and Sports Sciences from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2012).
He is an active member of the International Association of Sports Economists, and a former member of the European Association for Sport Management, and the Brazilian Association for Sport Management. His professional experience includes working as an Administrative Manager for Tupi Football Club during the Campeonato Mineiro Module I (2013) and as an intern at Fundación Celta de Vigo (2013).
Dr. Gasparetto specializes in Sports Economics and Management, focusing on the managerial, economic, and financial aspects of sports. He has published more than 35 peer-reviewed manuscripts over the last years, including publications in highly ranked journals like the Journal of Economic Psychology, International Journal of Drug Policy, European Sport Management Quarterly, Journal of Sports Economics, Managerial Finance, Gender in Management, among many others.
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