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, the effective price of a bet, and the jackpot. Additionally, we evaluate the importance of the composition of the list of … jackpot, but not the effective price, have significant effects on sales, which could have important implications in terms of …
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Government sponsored lotteries operate around the world. Their popularity has grown substantially over time. Legal lottery gambling generates significant public revenue, much of it from the lower part of the income distribution. Lottery is almost always an unfair bet, so explaining the purchase...
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lotto games. The entry fee was not changed but the familiar 6/49 format was replaced by 5/54 + 1/10. This considerably … jackpot of €5m introduced. The change in rules provides an unusual opportunity to study the effect on sales of features of … lotto games other than entry fee and pay-back rate. The changes in design appear in this case to have allowed the operator …
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Regulatory and industry decisions influencing commercial gambling activities require clear understanding of the role that stakes and prizes play in the development and facilitation of gambling-related harm. Although industry proponents argue for increases in stakes and prizes to meet market...
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The United Kingdom National Lottery is a member of a lottery block that offers a weekly lotto game, known as … the pre-existing national lotto game and whether, with both products in place, players treat them as substitutes or … complements. No evidence is found of cannibalisation and UK Saturday Lotto and EuroMillions are found to be complements rather …
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This paper considers the whether offering multiple lotto games within a state by joining a multi-state lottery …
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Because the jackpots in lotto games are potentially unlimited, it has been speculated that these lotteries may have a … positive expected return for high jackpots. While most previous work has concluded that the lotto rarely presents a player with …
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State lotteries currently operate in 43 states across the US. Recently, three states have privatized their lottery operations, handing over the management of their lotteries to private companies in hopes of generating greater revenues for the state governments. Questions arise regarding the...
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Over the past half century, there has been an increasing prevalence of legalized gambling in the US. At the same time there is a general recognition, empirically supported in the economics literature, that spending on lottery and gaming products tends to be regressive in nature. In addition,...
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A mathematical exposition on the matter of fair bets in german state lottery.
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