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Does economic policy uncertainty encourage gambling? : evidence from the Chinese welfare lottery market
Xu, Can; Steiner, Andreas; Haan, Jakob de - 2023
This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on gambling activity in China. Based on a … data on lottery sales in Chinese provinces to estimate the short- and long-run effect of EPU on gambling. Our results … suggest that EPU has a significant positive effect on gambling in the short run. In addition, we find that this positive …
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How much sunlight does it take to disinfect a boardroom? : a short history of executive compensation regulation
Dew-Becker, Ian (contributor) - 2008
This paper reviews the history of executive compensation disclosure and other government policies affecting CEO pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749481
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Poverty and economic behavior : gambling at social security paydays
Dahan, Momi - 2019 - This version: 15/7/2019
outlets in Israel for two years (2015-2016), I find that gambling revenue spikes at social security paydays. The estimation …
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Using spatial distribution of outlets to estimate gambling incidence
Dahan, Momi - 2017
The paper proposes a simple and innovative methodology for measuring the incidence of gambling expenditure in countries … merging data on the geographical location of gambling outlets, together with residents' socio-economic and demographic … results and yields a measure of -0.42, which implies that the implicit tax associated with gambling is highly regressive. …
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Skewness preferences : evidence from online poker
Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Kasinger, Johannes; Schneider, … - 2024
We test for skewness preferences in a large set of observational panel data on online poker games (n=4,450,585). Each observation refers to a choice between a safe option and a binary risk of winning or losing the game. Our setting offers a real-world choice situation with substantial incentives...
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Industrial clusters in the long run : evidence from Million-Rouble plants in China
Heblich, Stephan; Marlon, Seror; Xu, Hao; Zylberberg, Yanos - 2019
This paper exploits a short-lived cooperation program between the U.S.S.R. and China, which led to the construction of …
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The employment effect of inward FDI in China : what do we learn from the history?
Wang, Hao; Ji, Yuemei; Luo, Qi - 2020 - This version 19 June 2020
information about Chinese modern history during 1842-1955). Our results show that the inward FDI has a positive effect on …
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Risk aversion and the subjective time discount rate : a joint approach
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Booij, Adam S. - 2003
In this paper we analyze a large sample of individual responses to six lottery questions. We derive a simultaneous estimate of risk aversion and the time preference discount rate per individual. This can be done because the consumption of a large prize is smoothed over a larger time period. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507761
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Direct and indirect effects based on difference-in-differences with an application to political preferences following the Vietnam draft lottery
Deuchert, Eva; Huber, Martin; Schelker, Mark - 2016
This paper proposes a difference-in-differences approach for disentangling a total treatment effect on some outcome into a direct impact as well as an indirect effect operating through a binary intermediate variable - or mediator - within strata defined upon how the mediator reacts to the...
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Auction theory from an all-pay view : buying binary lotteries
Leininger, Wolfgang - 2000
An auction is viewed as a process that in equilibrium generates a binary lottery for each bidder, which the bidder buys with his bid. This view allows for a simple way to consistently assess differences in bidding behavior over different bidders and different auctions. E.g. all auctions covered...
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