Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries …In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …

Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries …In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …

Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries …In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …

Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries …In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …

Casino gambling is a social issue, because in addition to the direct benefits to those who own and use casinos … household utility. It also discusses the current state of knowledge about the estimates of both the positive and negative … externalities generated by casinos. Lastly, it corrects many prevalent errors in the debate over the economics of casino gambling. …

profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities … are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities …

This paper documents that region-level consumption exhibits excess sensitivity to lagged income in Italy, Japan, Spain …, the United Kingdom and West Germany. However, region-specific idiosyncratic) consumption exhibits substantially less …

change in asset or portfolio return affects household’s consumption growth, using a sample of households from the Consumer … affects consumption growth, and housing is an important asset to account for in the household portfolio. …This paper investigates whether the inclusion of housing in a household portfolio is important to the household …

return on a household portfolio is more relevant to the household’s intertemporal decision making. In a current era … estimate the intertemporal elasticity of substitution, namely, how a change in the asset or portfolio return affects household …’s consumption growth. The estimates obtained using real after-tax composite return are about 0.15-0.3 and are more robust to linear …

periodically but make consumption decisions on a more frequent basis. The model incorporates price uncertainty and imperfect credit … markets. The simulated numerical solution to this model shows that weekly consumption functions are ordered such that the …