Eva Marikova Leeds
Professor of Economics, Director of Undergraduate Business Programs (1999)
Education
- B.A., Michigan State University, Phi Beta Kappa
- M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Contact
Email: leedse@moravian.edu
Office Phone: 610-861-1446
Office Location: Comenius Hall, Room 214
Areas of Research and/or Expertise
Sports economics, economic development, event studies, financial markets, mortgage banking, Czech privatization and transition.
Biography
Dr. Leeds earned her undergraduate degree in political theory from James Madison College at Michigan State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. She was a Fulbright Lecturer in the fall of 1991 at the Prague School of Economics (VSE), teaching Money and Banking. In 1994-95, she advised the minister of the economy in the Czech Republic on the launching of the mortgage market in that country. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan in 2006-7, a visiting associate professor at Temple University Japan in Tokyo in 2007-9, and a guest researcher at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Germany in spring of 2016. For her upcoming sabbatical (2024-25), she returns to Tokyo.
Her research started with the examination of the mortgage market, resulting in Interest Rate Risk with Price-Level Adjusted Mortgages. Her Czech background led her to focusing on transition economies and culminated in Voucher Privatization in Czechoslovakia. She applied her expertise in finance to sports economics, using event analysis in A Stadium by Any Other Name: The Value of Naming Rights, in which she and her coauthors found that the purchase of naming rights has no effect on the expected profitability of the corporations that purchase them. Since then, she has broadened her interest in sports to examine the economics of baseball in Japan (The Effect of Wage Inequality on Performance in Nippon Professional Baseball) and gender differences in competitive settings (All out all the time? Superstars and Incentives on the LPGA Tour).
She and Michael Leeds edited the Handbook on the Economics of Women's Sports (Edward Elgar). Most recently, they edited a special volume of the Journal of Sports Economics to mark the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX (forthcoming). Eva continues to present her research at major economics conferences. Locally, she has contributed to the Foreign Policy Association's 'Great Decisions' Program. She is president-elect of the North American Association of Sports Economists (NAASE).
For a complete list of presentations and publications, view Dr. Leeds CV.
