Kevin Patrick Mongeon Curriculum Vitae May 2013 Contact Information Brock University 500 Glenridge Ave.
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, L2S 3A1 [email protected]
509.432.6230
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Brock University, 2013
-Assistant Professor of Economics and Sports Management, University of New Haven, 2010-2013
Instructor of Mathematics, Mohawk College, 2004
Teacher of Mathematics, Iroquois Falls Secondary School, 1998 Other Positions
Principal Owner, The Sports Analytics Institute, 2010-Analyst, Fallsview Casino Resort, 2004-2006
Education
Ph.D., Economics, Washington State University, Pullman, 2010 Fields: Industrial Organization and Econometrics
Dissertation Chair: Jill McCluskey
MBA, University of Windsor, Ontario Canada, 2001 B.A., Lakehead University, Ontario Canada, 1998
Major: Mathematics
B.Ed., Lakehead University, Ontario Canada, 1998 Major: Education
Research and Teaching Interests
Peer-Reviewed Publications
1. “Cross-Ownership, League Policies and Player Investment across Sports Leagues” (with Jason Winfree), Review of Industrial Organization, 2013: 1-18.
2. “A Methodology for Identify the Discrimination Group in Referee Adjudicator Studies” (with Neil Longley), Applied Economic Letters, 2013, 20(5): 416-419.
3. “A Comparison of Television and Gate Demand in the National Basketball Associa-tion” (with Jason Winfree), The Sport Management Review, 2012, 15(1): 72-79.
Papers Under Peer-Review
1. “Rationally Biased Officiating for Preservation and Profit” (with Ron Mittelhammer), Under review at Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
2. “Team Level Referee Discrimination and Externalities” (with Neil Longley), Under review at Social Science Quarterly
3. “Testing for Ethnicity Discrimination Among NHL Referees: A Duration Model Ap-proach” (with Neil Longley), Revised and resubmitted at the Eastern Economic Journal 4. “A Market Test for Salary Discrimination in the National Hockey League: A Micro Panel Data Approach”, Revised and resubmitted at the Journal of Sports Economics 5. “University Grade Gaps and Implications for Affirmative Action” (with Shawn Ulrick
and Michael Giannetto), Under review at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
6. “To Discriminate or Not to Discriminate – Is Data Aggregation the Question?” (with Ron Mittelhammer), Under review at Economic Letters
7. “Designing Effective Workforces and Teams Considering Co-Worker Heterogeneity Ef-fects” (with J. Michael Boyle), Under review at Industrial Labor Relations Review
Working Papers
1. “The Effects of Tutoring on Success in Education” (with Georgina Mitchell and Michael Giannetto)
2. “Where is the call? Omission Biased Officiating in Athletic Contests: A Duration Model Approach” (with Ron Mittelhammer), To be submitted to Economic Inquiry 3. “A Latent Variable Approach to Estimating Player Productivity in the NHL” (with
Michael Boyle and Michael Giannetto)
6. “Decomposing the socioeconomic grade gap” (with Shawn Ulrick and Michael Gian-netto)
Other Publications
1. “Hockey Analytics: Derived Statistics are the Beginning not the End”, MIT Sports Conference, 2013
Conference Proceedings and Other Presentations
1. “Succeeding with Analytics in Professional Hockey - Now and Into the Future”, Pre-dictive Analytics World, Toronto, Ontario, 2013
2. “A Test for Ethnicity Discrimination Among NHL Referees: Analyzing Micro-Level Data” (with Neil Longley), International Association of Sports Economists’ Conference, London, England, 2012
3. “The Existence and Economics of Rationally Biased Officiating” (with Ron Mittel-hammer), Canadian Economics Conference, Calgary, Alberta, 2012*
4. “An Ethnicity Discrimination Test Among National Hockey League Officials” (with Neil Longley), Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, 2011*
5. “Cross-Ownership, League Policies and Player Investment across Sports Leagues” (with Jason Winfree), Western Economics Association International Conference. San Diego, California, 2011
6. “Using Detailed Data in Sports Economics Modeling”, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2011*
7. “Successfully Using Analytics in Hockey” The Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011* 8. “Home Advantage, Close Games, and Big Crowds: The Existence and Economics of Rationally Biased Officiating”(with Ron Mittelhammer), Midwest Economics Associ-ation Annual Conference. St. Louis, Missouri, 2011*
*Presenter
Field Experiments and Data Collection Projects in Progress Real-time political betting markets
Real-time professional hockey game data (with J. Michael Boyle) Professional sports prediction markets (with J. Michael Boyle) Explaining University Grades (with Michael Ginanetto)
Grants and Funding
Summer Research Grant, University of New Haven, 2012 Research Fund, University of New Haven, 2012
Summer Research Grant, University of New Haven, 2011 Research Fund, University of New Haven, 2011
Course Delivered
University of New Haven, 2012 Game Theory (U)
Principles of Microeconomics (U) Quantitative Analysis (EMBA) (4.8)
Decision Making Under Uncertainty (4.7) (U) The Management of Sports Industries (U), (4.8) University of New Haven, 2011
Strategic Event Management (U), (4.1) Sports Economics (G), (4.8)
The Management of Sports Industries (U), (4.2 and 4.2) The Industry of Sports (G), (4.4)
Strategic Event Management (U), (4.1) Event Management in Sports (G), (4.5) University of New Haven, 2010
The Industry of Sports (G), (4.0)
The Management of Sports Industries (U), (3.5 and 4.3) Event Management in Sports (G), (4.4)
Strategic Event Management (U), (4.1) Washington State University, 2009
Sports Economics (U), (4.1 and 4.4) Washington State University, 2008
Sports Economics (U), (4.0)
Intermediate Microeconomics (U), (4.0 and 4.3) Intermediate Macroeconomics (U)
Brock University, 2005
Intermediate Statistics (U) Mohawk College, 2004
respectively. Course evaluations are in parentheses. Student Committees
Ph.D.
1. Georgina Mitchell, Washington State University Undergraduate
1. Matthew Boczar, Honor Thesis. The Impact of Minor League Baseball Teams on Local Economies, University of New Haven, 2013
Media Appearances Newspaper
1. “Moneyball-ization of hockey pays off for Penguins”, The Globe and Mail, March 2013 2. “Data, Pucks and Money: Analytics Applied to the National Hockey League”
Data-Informed magazine, March 2013
3. “A Stat to Face”, All Analytics, March 2013
4. “ ´A quoi peut servir l’analyse?”, Journal Metro, November 2012
5. “NHL outliers: Is Jordan Eberle one of the NHLs rare super snipers? ”, Edmonton Journal, February 2012
6. “Numbers Indicate That Skill Usually Packs a Bigger Punch Than Fists”, New York Times, January 2012
7. “What will come after Corsi plus/minus? Heres one promising new plus/minus system?”, Edmonton Journal, November 2011
8. “The Money Puck Revolution”, The Globe and Mail, September 2011
9. “Why havent advanced stats caught on in the NHL?”, The Globe and Mail, September 2011
10. “Hockeys new numbers” The Globe and Mail, September 2011
11. “Kovalchuk is more useful on the ice than official statistics tells”, Sports-Express, Russia, September 2011
12. “Sponsorship of New Haven Open at Yale Tennis Tourney Good for Business”, The New Haven Register, September 2011
Service Highlights Reviewing
Economic Inquiry (2), 2012 Professional
Session Chair at the Southern Economics Association Conference, 2012 Discussant at Midwestern Economics Association, 2011
University
Library Committee, 2012 College
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2012
Undergraduate Professional Development Committee, 2012 Dean Search Committee, 2011
University College Dean Search Committee, 2010 Department
Open Houses, Faculty Advisor,
2010-Independent Studies (5), 2012 Honors Thesis Advisor (1), 2012 Student Club Advisor, 2010-2011 Honors and Awards
Keynote Speaker, Predictive Analytics World, Toronto, Ontario, 2013 Professional Consulting
Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey Club, 2010-Other (confidential) NHL hockey clubs, 2011-Professional Memberships
American Economic Association Canadian Economics Association
Western Economics Association International North American Association of Sports Economists North American Society for Sports Management Toastmasters President, 2009
