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This research investigates the relationship between football match outcomes, betting odds and the stock prices of publicly traded European football clubs, spanning from 11 February 2004 to 7 April 2022. Drawing data from 12 major European and publicly traded clubs, the study utilised betting...
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An avalanche of empirical studies has addressed the validity of the rank-size rule (or Zipf's law) in a multi-city context in many countries. City size in most countries seems to obey Zipf's law, but the question under which conditions (e.g. sample size, spatial scale) this 'law' holds remained...
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This paper examines the recency bias and overreaction in the NFL betting market from 2003 to 2017. Consistent with the recency bias, bettors are more likely to bet on teams who have won previous outcomes. We add to the literature and find that the magnitude of prior wins and losses in the...
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the wealth effect of higher realized returns will increase gambling (enter-tainment good), but also attract gamblers to … (thrill and skewed payouts), butalso curtail gambling in response to growing economic uncertainty. Utilizing a novel horse wa … corporate bond spreads as a proxy for business cycles, we find gam-bling expenditures rise during recessions. Price of wagering …
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We examine the impact of stock market wealth and business cycles on gambling. Rising stock market wealth is expected to … increase expenditures on entertainment goods, including gambling. Conversely, rising volatility is expected to draw betting … outlays to the stock markets. Gambling is also expected to rise during recessions. Utilizing a novel horse wagering data and a …
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The gaming economy has expanded rapidly in East Asia during the past decade. Despite the public health hazards of Second Hand Smoking (SHS), smoking bans in casinos remain controversial due to concerns over potential economic losses for casino firms. Applying an event study method, the authors...
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The gaming economy has expanded rapidly in East Asia over the past decade. Despite the known public health hazards of secondhand smoking, smoking bans in casinos remain controversial due to concerns over the potential economic harm to casino firms. Applying an event study, the authors examine...
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) appetite. Changes in the volume spent on the most lottery-like gambling wallet explain a significant portion (32%) of variation … coincides with a significant decrease in the proportion of Bitcoin transactions involved in gambling and aligns with other work …
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Using Internet search volume for lottery to capture gambling sentiment shifts, we show that when the overall gambling …-ownership firms, headquartered in regions where gambling is more acceptable and local bias is stronger. These results support the view … that gambling sentiment has a spillover effect on the stock market …
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I discover that investors' preferences for gambling mainly involve stocks that have performed poorly in the past three …
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