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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on
Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003
In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076623
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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on
Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003
In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125975
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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on
Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003
In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125976
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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on
Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003
In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in … Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries … gambling, it remains unclear whether problem gambling and its impacts have moderated. There is a need for more research on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062466
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Business Profitability and Social Profitability: Evaluating Industries with Externalities, The Case Casinos.
Grinols, Earl L.; Mustard, David B. - EconWPA - 2005
Casino gambling is a social issue, because in addition to the direct benefits to those who own and use casinos … externalities generated by casinos. Lastly, it corrects many prevalent errors in the debate over the economics of casino gambling. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561010
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Productivity in Australia's wholesale and retail trade
Johnston, Alan; Porter, Darrell; Cobbold, Trevor; … - EconWPA - 2001
Examines the productivity performance of the wholesale and retail trade sectors in light of their significant contribution to Australia’s record productivity performance in the 1990s. Fundamental changes in the nature and operations of wholesale trade, in particular, have brought marked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124857
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Hide and Seek in Arizona
Rosenthal, Robert W.; Shachat, Jason; Walker, Mark - EconWPA - 2003
Laboratory subjects repeatedly played one of two variations of a simple two-person zero-sum game of ``hide and seek.'' Three puzzling departures from the prescriptions of equilibrium theory are found in the data: an asymmetry related to the player's role in the game; an asymmetry across the game...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125561
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Simulating a Multiproduct Barter Exchange Economy
Levy, Daniel; Bergen, Mark - EconWPA - 2005
We describe a multiproduct barter trading experiment in which students exchange real goods in an open market based on … their own personal preference. The experiment is designed for simulating a pure exchange market in order to demonstrate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125577
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A Laboratory Experiment of Knowledge Diffusion Dynamics
Morone, Piergiuseppe; Taylor, Richard - EconWPA - 2004
This paper aims to study, by means of a laboratory experiment and a simulation model, some of the mechanisms which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125585
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When punishment fails: Research on sanctions, intentions and non- cooperation
Houser, Daniel; Xiao, Erte; McCabe, Kevin; Smith, Vernon - EconWPA - 2005
People can become less cooperative when threatened with sanctions, and researchers have pointed to both 'intentions' and incentives as sources of this effect. This paper reports data from a novel experimental design aimed at determining the relative importance of intentions and incentives in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062715