. Following this sentence, a state monopoly in future has to maximize players’ protection and prevention of pathological gambling …

the treatment of gambling winnings and losses in the federal tax code and shows how the system may incentivize some … fact that gambling losses can only be deducted if taxpayers are filing for itemized deductions, meaning the scale of … gambling losses has to be large enough to push a taxpayer's eligible deductions over the standard deduction. This incentive to …

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 …

A new IEA publication explores the case for deregulating the gambling marketExecutive summary:The 2005 Gambling Act was … intended to modernise gambling in the United Kingdom by replacing the anachronistic 1968 Gaming Act with legislation better … these were limited to specified towns and regions. Gambling machines and jackpots were also strictly limited.The Blair …

. Japan has a longer history and more experience in both monetization of mobile games with gambling like elements (Gacha) and …

of the natural experiment. Our results are robust to a number of specifications and sub-samples of our general sample …