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The means of contest design may include differential taxation of the prize. This paper establishes that, given a revenue-maximizing contest designer who faces a balanced-budget constraint, the optimal taxation scheme corresponding to an all-pay auction is appealing in two senses. First, it...
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. Following this sentence, a state monopoly in future has to maximize players’ protection and prevention of pathological gambling …
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We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …
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Wir entwickeln ein Modell für strategisches Spielverhalten bei Glücksspielen nach dem Totalisatorprinzip und wenden es auf die Fußballwettspiele Toto und Torwette an. Unter der Annahme, dass Buchmacherquoten die wahren Ausgangswahrscheinlichkeiten der betreffenden Fußballspiele reflektieren,...
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who choose to gamble are likely to be larger than for the general population. Using UK data on gambling wins, other … those likely to be credit-onstrained. This is consistent with credit-constrained, risk-averse agents gambling to convexify …
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A new IEA publication explores the case for deregulating the gambling marketExecutive summary:The 2005 Gambling Act was … intended to modernise gambling in the United Kingdom by replacing the anachronistic 1968 Gaming Act with legislation better … these were limited to specified towns and regions. Gambling machines and jackpots were also strictly limited.The Blair …
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Data on institutional saving in US higher education have not been available until now, yet they are useful in several ways. They describe how various types of schools are doing financially, and whether their present behavior is sustainable. They complete the picture of sources and uses of...
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The U.S. banking industry is steadily increasing its reliance on nontraditional business activities that generate fee income, trading revenue, and other types of noninterest income. This paper assesses potential diversification benefits from this shift. At the aggregate level, declining...
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The combination of consumer preferences, technological changes, and different income elasticities among goods and services can generate inequalities among agents leading to winners and losers. Inspired by these mechanisms, we pose the following research question: "Can immiserizing growth (IG)...
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