Lottery-linked deposit accounts (LLDAs) are financial assets that provide an interest rate determined by a lottery. These accounts that combine savings and lot- tery have become very popular in recent years and in a number of countries (Guillen and Tschoegel). However, their existence cannot be...

By using an historical approach, this paper supports the idea that the popularity of lottery-linked financial assets does not corne from an abnormally high expected retum, but from their original framework that combines gambling and savings. We show that these kinds of assets are very famous and...

In this article, we determine the optimal design of lottery-linked savings (LLS) programmes. LLS vehicles, such as lottery bonds, are financial instruments that preserve depositors' principal but provide randomized variable returns to these depositors through periodic lottery drawings, <italic>in lieu</italic>...

Lottery-linked deposit accounts (LLDAs) are financial assets that provide an interest rate determined by a lottery. These accounts that combine savings and lottery have become very popular in recent years and in a number of countries (Guillen and Tschoegel). However, their existence cannot be...

Lottery-linked deposit accounts (LLDAs) are financial assets that provide an interest rate determined by a lottery. These accounts that combine savings and lottery have become very popular in recent years and in a number of countries (Guillen and Tschoegel). However, their existence cannot be...

The Cumulative Prospect Theory, as it was specified by Tversky and Kahneman (1992) does not explain the St Petersburg Paradox. This study shows that the solutions proposed in the literature (Blavatskyy, 2005; Rieger and Wang, 2006) to guarantee, under rank dependent models, finite subjective...

We investigate the impact of bank competition on the use of collateral in loan contracts. We develop a theoretical model incorporating information asymmetries in a spatial competition framework where banks choose between screening the borrower and asking for collateral. We show that the presence...