In our increasingly globalized world of shared cultures, we have seen the spread of addictive behaviors such as smoking … other addictive practices. He then tests his theories with data on smoking, lottery gambling and pachinko gambling, to … behaviors such as smoking and various forms of gambling. The issues of information asymmetry (e.g., the effect of lottery …

This paper discusses consequences of changing economic conditions and job characteristics for individual behaviour by … means of addiction. The central assumption is that unwanted high consumption of health damaging goods leads to an income …

Quarterly data of magazine circulation are used to analyse the consumption behaviour of the readers of German popular … addiction hypothesis in respect with goods without any biological dependency. …