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A view has developed among some retailing researchers that financial markets have, from time to time, unduly favoured the retail sector in the UK. It is argued that this has been exploited, to some extent, by retailing companies using creative, but legitimate, accounting techniques to enhance...
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The problem of asset price bubbles, and more generally of instability in the financial system, has been a matter of concern since the 1980s but has only recently moved to the center of the macroeconomic policy debate. The main concern with bubbles arises when they burst, imposing losses on...
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The development of free floating exchange rates can hardly be explained by macroeconomic fundamentals as supposed by traditional economic theories. Therefore, prominent economists yet conclude that there exists an ‘exchange rate disconnect puzzle’ (see Obstfeld and Rogoff [2000]). The...
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This two-part paper is intended to explore the task of differentiating a professional gambler from a leisure gambler, specifically, among online poker players. The first part of the study consists of a statistical analysis to identify the requisite number of hands of online poker required to...
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relationship between individuals’ gambling choices and their choices regarding fast-food consumption, junk-food consumption … significant and revealing relationship between gambling choices and choices relating to one's health that can lead one to conclude …
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A development in Australian hospitality education has been increasing numbers of industry specific tertiary courses developed in conjunction with, and often at the request of, a particular industry through its industry association. The desire for more professional standards and management...
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This paper helps address a deficiency of gender specific research into gambling. Using predominantly non … randomly from six large Sydney clubs. The results support female gambling stereotypes of lower individual bets and lower … overall expenditure, but not of lower participation and frequency of play, and shorter duration of gambling sessions. Further …
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This article seeks to establish the extent of displacement effects across gaming products. This is a particularly difficult question to address with precision. To date, many studies have looked at policy changes such as the introduction of a new product into the market to assess the severity of...
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This analysis reviews whether the logical extension of the socio-economic costs caused by pathological gambling should … include a negative socio-economic (i.e., "crime") multiplier in gambling cost/benefit analyses. ... B. Legalized Gambling as … postulated that the multiplier effect was less when those same consumer dollars were spent in decriminalized gambling activities …
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The Gambling Industry and Taxation by Terrorism ... Another concern was the target marketing to children via children …'s themes on video gambling machines leading to charges that the gambling industry had transformed the problem of Joe Camel into … "Joe Casino. ... The annual U.S. bankruptcy costs due to legalized gambling were at least $ 3 billion with 105,000 new …
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