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conflicts with the requirements of the Supreme Court. -- Gambling ; sports betting ; brand marketing policy ; sports economics …
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Clock rule changes were introduced in the 2006 season with the goal of reducing the average duration of the game; these changes were reversed in 2007. In addition, in 2007 the kickoff rule was changed to create more excitement and potentially more scoring. We examine what happened to actual and...
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The study sought to assess the impact of sports betting on the investment behaviour of Ghanaians, focusing on sports … individuals perceive the risk of sports lotteries as opposed to investment, to determine if sports lottery was viewed as an … alternative to investments and savings, and to understand how participation in sports lotteries affects individuals' ability to …
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On May 14, 2018, the United States Supreme Court struck down the federal prohibition on sports gambling. The sweeping … opinion, authored by Justice Alito, ended more than a quarter-century old policy that kept states from offering sports … gambling and therefore, sports betting was confined almost entirely to illegal underground markets. Indeed, the sports betting …
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The United States employs an ad hoc, unconventional method of regulating sports betting, banning it almost everywhere … while granting a monopoly to firms in a single state, Nevada. This approach encourages illegal sports betting markets …. I review the current state of sports betting regulation in the U.S. and assess its economic viability in advance of the …
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Over the past two years, there has been a monumental shift in how U.S. professional sports leagues have perceived … “daily fantasy sports.” Back in March 2013, the chief executive of Major League Baseball Advanced Media, Robert Bowman, told … the New York Times that he perceived “daily fantasy sports” as “akin to a flip of the coin, which is the definition of …
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sports gambling for the first time in more than 25 years. The advent of legalized gambling has sports leagues clamoring for … compensation from states that authorize wagers on the particular leagues' games. Legal sports gambling promises to be one of the … operators lining up, and sports leagues abandoning policy positions they have maintained for the better part of the last century …
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This paper examines whether sports betting markets are semistrong-form efficient—i.e., whether new information is …
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On the basis of the Federal Constitutional Court ruling on the sports betting market from the 28th of March 2006 this … report describes four scenarios, which outline how the sports betting market could develop up to the year 2010 considering … determine the value added, employment and government revenue effects that are associated with the activities of the sports …
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We analyze the effect of taxation in the online sport betting market. A relevant characteristic of this market is its negligible marginal cost on bet volume. Taxation can be on gross profit (Gross Profit Tax) or on volume (General Betting Duty). We model the two most popular online sport betting...
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