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Wir entwickeln ein Modell für strategisches Spielverhalten bei Glücksspielen nach dem Totalisatorprinzip und wenden es auf die Fußballwettspiele Toto und Torwette an. Unter der Annahme, dass Buchmacherquoten die wahren Ausgangswahrscheinlichkeiten der betreffenden Fußballspiele reflektieren,...
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. Following this sentence, a state monopoly in future has to maximize players’ protection and prevention of pathological gambling …
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We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …
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who choose to gamble are likely to be larger than for the general population. Using UK data on gambling wins, other … those likely to be credit-onstrained. This is consistent with credit-constrained, risk-averse agents gambling to convexify …
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In this paper we investigate how heterogeneous agents choose among tournaments with different prizes. We show that if the number of agents is sufficiently small, multiple equilibria can arise. Depending on how the prize money is split over the tournaments, these may include, for example, a...
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In this paper it is shown that the combination of mental accounting and loss aversion can fundamentally changes people's way of evaluating risky alternatives. The observation is applied in a market setting: Parimutuel betting markets. In parimutuel betting markets it has been found that for...
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Der kommerzielle Erfolg eines professionellen Fußballspiels hängt wesentlich vom erwarteten Spannungsgrad ab. Je weniger der Spielausgang prognostizierbar ist, desto größer ist das Zuschauerinteresse. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird deshalb die quantitative Bedeutung des Erfolgsfaktors Zufall...
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In this paper we experimentally investigate the disparity between willingness-to-accept (WTA) and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for risky lotteries. The direction of the income effect is reversed by endowing subjects with the highest price of a lottery when asking the WTP question. Our results show...
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Seit Dezember 2006 liegt der Glücksspielstaatsvertrag der Länder unterschriftsreif vor. Er bleibt aber umstritten. Eine neue Regulierung des Glücksspielwesens in Deutschland war erforderlich geworden, nachdem das Bundesverfassungsgericht Teile des bayerischen Staatslotteriegesetzes für...
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A solidarity game was conducted where participants were able to choose between two lotteries with same expected values. However, in one lottery, the risky one, participants faced a higher probability to receive no endowment. The winners were then able to discriminate between subjects risk...
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