I’m a Professor of Economics at University College Dublin. That’s me below.

My book Fine Margins: How Economics Explains Sports Betting is now available for purchase.

There are two editions, a US edition and an International edition. The International edition has more material on betting markets for soccer. The US edition focuses more on the American sports betting industry, includes a chapter on tax issues and discusses prediction markets.

The US edition can be bought on Amazon here. More listings to come.

The International edition can be bought on Amazon here and from other international Amazon sites.

In the UK you can buy it from Blackwell’s here.

In Australia, you can buy it from Booktopia here.

You also find writing about the book and related topics here at the Sports Betting link above.

I have also set up a Substack for posts on the topics covered by the book.

 

About Me

Before joining UCD, I worked as an economist at the Central Bank of Ireland and before that the Federal Reserve Board. Here‘s a full CV.

I spent most of career as a macroeconomist but I am currently also working on the economics of sports betting and prediction markets.

I can be contacted via email at karl.whelan@ucd.ie. You can also find me sometimes on BlueSky (@karlwhelan.bsky.social) and LinkedIn. I also (with some reluctance) have a sports-betting-only feed at Twitter @KarlWhelanUCD.