Rodney Fort, Professor
EDUCATION
- BS Utah State, MS Montana State, PhD Caltech
FIELD OF INTEREST
- Regulation, I-O, Sports Economics
EMPLOYMENT
- 1984-present, WSU
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Location and Attendance in Major League Baseball
- Attendance and Uncertainty of Outcome
- Talent Choice in U.S. Pro Sports Leagues: A Rottenberg-Coase Perspective
- Vertical Integration in Major League Baseball
- Time-Series Analysis of Baseball Attendance
TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS
- Principles of Microeconomics
- Economics of Sports in America
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Lee, Young Hoon, and Fort, Rodney. Forthcoming. "Structural Change in Baseball’s Competitive Balance: The Great Depression, Team Location, and Racial Integration." Economic Inquiry.
- Fort, Rodney, and Fizel, John (eds.). 2004. International Sports Economics Comparisons ( Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers).
- Fort, Rodney. 2003. Sports Economics ( Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.).
- Fort, Rodney. 2000. "European and North American Sports Differences (?)" Scottish Journal of Political Economy 47(September):1-25.
- Quirk, James, and Fort, Rodney D. 1999. Hard Ball: The Uses and Abuses of Market Power in Professional Sports ( Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press).
- Cardell, Scott; Fort, Rodney; Joerding, Wayne; Inaba, Fred; Lamoreaux, David; Rosenman, Robert; Stromsdorfer, Ernst W.; Bartlett, Robin. 1996. "Laboratory-Based Experimental and Demonstration Initiatives in Teaching Undergraduate Economics." American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 86(May):454-459.
- Fort, Rodney, and Quirk, James. 1995. "Cross-Subsidization, Incentives, and Outcomes in Professional Team Sports Leagues." Journal of Economic Literature XXXIII(September):1265-1299 . [Reprint: Andrew Zimbalist (ed.). 2001. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics: The Economics of Sport (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc.).]
- Quirk, James, and Fort, Rodney D. 1992. Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports ( Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press). [Soft cover Edition, 1997.]
- Fort, Rodney, and Quirk, James. 1988. "Normal Backwardation and the Inventory Effect." Journal of Political Economy 96(February): 81-99.
- Fort, Rodney, and Hallagan, William. 1987. "Who Bids the Most for Market Power?" Economic Inquiry 25(October): 671-680.
HONORS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- Society for American Baseball Research, nomination for the Seymour Medal, Hardball: The Abuse of Power in Pro Team Sports, 2000.
- Princeton University Press, nomination to the Pulitzer Prize Committee, Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports, 1992.
- Pacific Northwest Bell Distinguished Faculty Award, Pacific Northwest Bell, 1988.
- Shell Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, Shell Companies Foundation, Inc., 1985
PERSONAL
- Vice President, International Association of Sports Economists, Limoges, France. Summer 2002-present.
- Board of Associates, Institute for the Study of Sports Management, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Fall 2002-present.
- Research Fellow, Washington Institute for Public Policy Studies, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, Summer 1991.
- Research Associate, Center for the Study of Futures Markets, Columbia University ( New York), 1984-1986.
Contact Info
E-mail Address
fort@mail.wsu.edu
rodfort@adelphia.net
http://users.pullman.com/rodfort
Office Location:
203H Hulbert Hall
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