. Following this sentence, a state monopoly in future has to maximize players’ protection and prevention of pathological gambling …

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 …

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 …

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 …

television game show World Poker Tour as a natural experiment. The results show that professional players strategically choose …

emotions. This conjecture is tested in an experiment with real lottery tickets. We show that our theoretical considerations may …

decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment …