• The last presenter in each session will serve as the session chair

Day 1: April 28

09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome Coffee UCA 2nd Floor

09:30 – 09:40 | Opening Remarks by Prof. Shlomo Weber

09:40 – 10:45 | Plenary Session UCA 2nd Floor

• Speaker: Alex Krumer

• Topic: Ask not what economics can do for sports - ask what sports can do for economics.

11:00 – 13:00 | Parallel Sessions (1a & 1b)

• Session 1a: Performance

  • Location: UCA 2nd Floor

    • Gleb Vasiliev: Performance Under Pressure When Competing Against the Other Gender

    • Sofia Paklina: Exploring the Relationship between Toxicity and Performance: Evidence from eSports

    • Mikhail Usanin: Gender Bias in Online Chess

    • Marina Zavertyaeva: AI-Driven Burnout Detection and Its Implications for Performance in eSports

• Session 1b: Labour Market (11:00 – 12:00)

  • Location: UCA 220

    • Christopher Hannum: A Non-Parametric Analysis of Historical Labour Market Discrimination Against Latin American Players in Major League Baseball

    • Danisz Okulicz: Adversarial Career Concerns: Theory and Evidence on Lawyers' Career Trajectories

15:00 – 16:30 | Parallel Sessions (2a & 2b)

• Session 2a: Design 1

  • Location: UCA 220

    • Karel Devresiereа (Online): From groups to a single league: Evaluating competitiveness in the UEFA Champions League

    • David van Bulck (Online): Redesigning Youth Leagues Using an Incomplete Round-Robin Tournament Format
      
      

• Session 2b: Psychology

  • Location: UCA 2nd floor

    • Nataliia Ziazina: Psychological aspects of motherhood in Russian sports. A pilot study

    • Anastasia Kovaleva (Online): Psychophysiological Signatures of Competitive Anxiety in Martial Arts Athletes Outside Competition: A Multivariate Perspective

    • Konstantin Bochaver: Personal authenticity as a new phenomenon in modern sport psychology

16:45 – 18:15 | Parallel Sessions (3a & 3b)

• Session 3a: Decision-making

  • Location: UCA 2nd floor

    • Petr Parshakov: Gender and Self-Imposed Risk in Competitive Online Environments

    • Clemens Puppe: Aggregating incomplete lists

    • Stephen Hill: The Development of Team Rankings Informed by In-Game Win Probability Modeling

• Session 3b: Strategy (16:45 – 17:45)

  • Location: UCA 220

    • Egor Ivanov: Strategic Choice in eSports: An Analysis of Team Decisions During Map Vetoes

    • Pejman Taghibeikzadehbadr (online): Spatial modelling of the consequences of possession-loss: the distance-related turnover-upshot risk (dTUR) metric

18:30 – 19:45 | Plenary Session (Online) UCA 2nd FLOOR

• Speaker: Ignacio Palacios-Huerta

• Topic: Competitiveness

Day 2: April 29

09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome Coffee  UCA 2nd Floor

09:30 – 11:00 | Parallel Sessions (4a & 4b)

• Session 4a: Health

  • Location: UCA 220

    • Dilnavoz Berdiyeva: Development and Implementation of a Food Calculator for Metabolic Risk Assessment and Nutritional Optimization in Athletes in Uzbekistan

    • Lakshmi Iyer: Determining the effect of cortisol on the functional status of athletes and developing physiological methods of reducing the negative effects

    • Azamjon Soliev:  Doping in sport in Uzbekistan: Problems, causes, and solutions.

• Session 4b: Design 2 (09:30 – 10:30)

  • Location: UCA 2nd Floor

    • Ivan Ovchinnikov: Regulation Design Effects on Athlete Retention, Performance and Competitive Balance in Student Rowing: Quasi-Experiment of Russian Student Rowing League

    • Dmitry Dagaev: Promotion Rules and the Incentive Incompatibility They Create

11:15 – 12:30 | Plenary Session (Online) UCA  2nd FLOOR

• Speaker: Juan Moreno-Ternero

• Topic: The economics of sportscast revenue sharing

14:30 – 15:30 | Session 5a: Management

• Location: UCA 2nd Floor

  • Camille Safarov: From Race to Reputation: Evaluating the Nation Branding Impact of Formula 1 in Azerbaijan

  • Karina Mukanova: Multiregional Olympic Games – an opportunity for Central Asia?

15:45 – 17:45 | Session 6a: Refereeing

• Location: UCA 2nd Floor

  • James Reade (Online): Player-level Elo ratings for football - can they help predict outcomes?

  • Yaromir Kazakov: Detecting Anomalous Patterns of Judging Agreement: Evidence from Figure Skating

  • Felix Otto (Online): Trimming of extreme votes and favoritism: Evidence from the field

  • Andrey Danilov: No Use Crying to the Referee Committee

Informal Session  with UZB Sports Leaders and Top Management

• Komil Sindarov – Vice President of the Uzbekistan Chess Federation

• Furqat Shirinov – Deputy Director of the Uzbekistan Chess Academy

• Farkhod Esanovich Bokiev – Deputy Minister of Preschool and School Education

• Bahrom Eriknovich Aminov – Head of the Department for Involving Children in Supplementary Education

• Dilmurod Artikbayev – Director of the Football Specialists Training Center

Closing Remarks and Certificates Awards

• The last presenter in each session will serve as the session chair 

• All time is TASHKENT local time

• Version 24 April, 2026

Program Committee Representatives in alphabetical order: 

1. Dmitry Dagaev - HSE University and NES, Russia (PC)

2. Alex Krumer - Molde University College, Norway (PC)

3. Juan D. Moreno-Ternero - Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain (PC)

4. Ignacio Palacios-Huerta - London School of Economics, UK (PC)

5. Petr Parshakov - HSE University, Russia (PC)

6. James Reade - University of Reading, UK (PC)

7. Shomo Weber - New Uzbekistan University, Uzbekistan (PC)

Conference Authors and Presenters in alphabetical order: 

8. Dilnavoz Berdiyeva - Central Asian University, Uzbekistan

9. Konstantin Bochaver - HSE University, Russia

10. Andrey Danilov - HSE University, Russia

11. Karel Devriesere - Ghent University, Belgium

12. Christopher Hannum - New Uzbekistan University, Uzbekistan

13. Stephen Hill - Samford University, United States

14. Egor Ivanov - HSE University, Russia

15. Lakshmi Iyer - Central Asian University, Uzbekistan

16. Yaromir Kazakov - HSE University, Russia

17. Anastasia Kovaleva - Federal Research Center for Innovator and Emerging Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Technologies, Russia

18. Karina Mukanova - International University of Monaco, Monaco

19. Danisz Okulicz - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

20. Felix Otto - University of Tinbergen, Germany

21. Ivan Ovchinnikov - HSE University, Russia

22. Sofia Paklina - HSE University, Russia

23. Clemens Puppe - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

24. Camille Safarov - International University of Monaco, Monaco

25. Evgeniya Shenkman - HSE University, Russia

26. Azamjon Soliev - Turin Polytechnic University, Uzbekistan

27. Pejman Taghibeikzadehbadr - University of Tehran, Iran

28. Mikhail Usanin - HSE University, Russia

29. David Van Bulck - Ghent University, Belgium

30. Gleb Vasiliev - HSE University, Russia

31. Marina Zavertiaeva - HSE University, Russia

32. Nataliia Ziazina - Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Russia