Sport betting is in Germany, like other public lotteries, strictly regulated as a state monopoly. This state monopoly …. Following this sentence, a state monopoly in future has to maximize players’ protection and prevention of pathological gambling …

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 …

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 …

In many countries, betting in sports is highly regulated. In Germany, however, there are current debates whether … regulation should be loosened. A crucial part of the argument is that sport bets could be qualified as games of skill that are … pathological gambling behavior are even stronger for soccer bets compared to bets on the outcome of lotteries. Concerning the main …

Several types of constraints must be satisfied by schedules of real world sports leagues, e. g. stadium unavailability … constraints are considered as 'soft' ones. There are various models appropriately describing the environment of real sport leagues … here a model which satisfies the demands of many sports leagues. We solve our model by a method which consists in …