Underdeclarations Are Typical When Alcohol, Tobacco and Gambling Consumptions Are Questioned in Surveys. Recent Surveys on Expenditures on Lotteries Have Similar Problems: the Declared Expenditures Equal Between 60 to 65 Percent of the Revenues of the Various State-Run Lottery Entreprises. by...

'A New Idea Does Not Come Forth in Its Mature Scientific Form. It Contains Logical Ambiguities Or Errors; the Evidence on Which It Rests Is Incomplete Or Indecisive; and Its Domain of Application Is Exaggerated in Certain Directions and Overlooked in Others', Wrote Stigler (1965, P.14) in One of...

This Paper Is Divided Into Two Parts. in the First Part, the Revenue Generated by Canadian Lotteries for the 1969-1987 Period Are Presented Both in Absolute and Relative Terms and Compared to Those of American Lotteries, Taken As a Whole. These Results Indicate That the Share of Canadian...

The Purpose of This Paper Is to Extend the Pareto Optimum Theory to the Case of a Temporary Framework