On June 30, 2012, a North American Association of Sports Economists-sponsored symposium session entitled “Sports Economics on Trial†was held in conjunction with the 2012 Western Economics Association International conference in San Francisco, California. The foci of the symposium were...

Given the vast number of observations in a transparent environment, the interaction between players and referees in the National Basketball Association (NBA) provides a real-world laboratory that allows for observation and testing of implicit height-based biases (the so-called “Napoleon...