This paper focuses on the legal monopoly for sporting bets in Germany. We analyze the pricing behavior of the monopolist ODDSET and find that typical pricing inefficiencies on betting markets are reinforced under the monopoly. This result in conjunction with the decreasing tax revenue may...

This note presents an experimental study of the random lottery incentive mechanism. In the baseline treatment we observe risk behavior in a given choice problem. We show that by integrating a second, asymmetrically dominated choice problem in a random incentive mechanism risk behavior can be...

In the context of eliciting preferences for decision making under risk, we ask the question: which might be the 'best' method for eliciting such preferences?ʺ. It is well known that different methods differ in terms of the bias in the elicitation; it is rather less well-known that different...