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Dr. Ross Booth

Organisation: Department of Economics
Title: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: BEc(Hons) Monash, MEc La Trobe, DipEd Melbourne, PhD Monash
  Ross was the Department's Director of Teaching (and Chair of the Teaching Committee) and Undergraduate Studies Coordinator in 2008. He also held a 0.6 fractional appointment with the Faculty as Course Director for the BCom, BEc and allied double degree programs at the Clayton campus. Ross has taught Sports Economics at both Clayton and Caulfield campuses since introducing the unit in 2002. His main research interest is the economics of professional team sports leagues, especially the Australian Football League.  His research has been published in international books International Sports Economics Comparisons and the Edward Elgar Handbook on the Economics of Sports, and most recently in the The Games are not the Same: The Political Economy of Football in Australia; as well as in Australian journals Economic Papers and Sport Management Review. He is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Sport Finance and the International Journal of the History of Sport. Since 1988, Ross has complemented his academic interest in sports economics with football commentary on the Victorian Football League for ABC TV and radio. Ross is a life member of the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) having been a Board member from 1986, and has been a member of the VCE Economics Examination Setting Panel since 2003.

 
Office: Clayton Campus
Room E979, Building 11
Monash University Vic 3800
Telephone: +61 3 9905 2434
Mobile: 0409 254 190
Fax: +61 3 9905 5476
E-mail: Ross.Booth@BusEco.monash.edu.au

 
Teaching Commitments: ECC1000 Principles of Microeconomics
ECC2450 Sports Economics

 
Research Interests: The economics of professional team sports leagues, particularly the Australian Football League. 

 
Selected Publications:

Booth, D.R. (2009). Sport economics. Australian Economic Review, 42(3), 377-385.

Booth, D.R. (2008). The A-League: A new league for Australia, from old soccer to new football. In P. Bourke, & J. Senyard (Eds.), Behind the Play: Football in Australia, (pp. 221-238).  Australia: Maribyrnong Press.

Booth, D.R. (2007). Executive interview: Andrew Demetriou, CEO of the Australian Football League. International Journal of Sport Finance, 2(3), 123-129.

Booth, D.R., & Macdonald, R.D. (2007). Around the grounds: A comparative analysis of football in Australia. In B. Stewart (Eds.), The Games Are Not the Same: The Political Economy of Football in Australia, (pp. 236-331). Australia:  Melbourne University Press.

Booth, D.R. (2006). Some economic effects of changes to gate-sharing arrangements in the Australian Football League. In M. Nicholson, B. Stewart, & R. Hess (Eds.), Football Fever: Moving the Goalposts, (pp. 115-132). Australia: Maribyrnong Press.

Booth, D.R. (2006). The economic development of the Australian Football League, In W. Andreff, & S. Szymanski (Eds.), Handbook on the Economics of Sport, (pp. 552-563). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

Booth, D.R. (2005). Revenue sharing. In D. Levinson, & K. Christensen (Eds.), Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport, Volume III, (pp. 1262-1264). USA: Berkshire Publishing Group.

Booth, D.R. (2005). Comparing competitive balance in Australian sports leagues: does a salary cap and player draft measure up? Sport Management Review, 8(2), 119-143.

Booth, D.R. (2004). Labor market intervention, revenue sharing, and competitive balance in the Australian Football League, 1897-2002. In R. Fort, & J. Fizel (Eds.),  International Sports Economics Comparisons, (pp. 319-336). USA: Praeger Publishers.

Booth, D.R. (2004). The economics of achieving competitive balance in the Australian Football League, 1897-2004. Economic Society of Australia, 23(4), 325-344.