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Do smoking bans always hurt the gaming industry? : differentiated impacts on the market value of casino firms in Macao
Zhang, Jing Hua; Tam, Kwo Ping; Zhou, Nan - 2016
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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Auswirkungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichtsurteils zum Sportwettmarkt auf die deutsche Volkswirtschaft
Hornuf, Lars; Britschkat, Günter; Lechner, Robert; … - 2006
Im vorliegenden Gutachten werden auf Grundlage der Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zum Sportwettenmarkt vom 28. März 2006 vier Szenarien erstellt, in denen beschrieben wird, wie sich der deutsche Sportwettmarkt bis zum Jahr 2010 unter unterschiedlichen gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen...
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Gaming, states and tax revenues : the tortoise or the hare : a CGE comparative assessment of casino resorts and racinos
Lahr, Michael L.; Alvarez, Maria - 2013
State tax revenues from casinos as a share of total state gaming revenues generally correlate well with the year of legalization. Theoretically speaking, heavy tax rates should dampen growth of the casino revenues in states that adopt them. Indeed, states with lower tax rates tend to have larger...
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Do smoking bans always hurt the gaming industry? : differentiated impacts on the market value of casino firms in Macao (China)
Zhang, Jing Hua; Tam, Kwo Ping; Zhou, Nan - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473725
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Does economic policy uncertainty encourage gambling? : evidence from the Chinese welfare lottery market
Xu, Can; Steiner, Andreas; Haan, Jakob de - 2023
This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on gambling activity in China. Based on a … data on lottery sales in Chinese provinces to estimate the short- and long-run effect of EPU on gambling. Our results … suggest that EPU has a significant positive effect on gambling in the short run. In addition, we find that this positive …
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Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Encourage Gambling? Evidence from the Chinese Welfare Lottery Market
Xu, Can; Steiner, Andreas; de Haan, Jakob - 2023
This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on gambling activity in China. Based on a … data on lottery sales in Chinese provinces to estimate the short- and long-run effect of EPU on gambling. Our results … suggest that EPU has a significant positive effect on gambling in the short run. In addition, we find that this positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262034
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Could free trade alleviate effects of climate change? : a worldwide analysis with emphasis on Morocco and Turkey
Ouraich, Ismail; Dudu, Hasan; Tyner, Wallace E.; … - 2014
productivity shocks on agriculture. Our findings suggest that the world as a whole benefits the more trade is liberalized. For …
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Socioeconomic Impact of COVID-19 on Investment, Trade and Economic Growth : Re-Positioning the World Economic Preferences
Shaukat, Badiea - 2020
We show the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on world's affected countries (Complete or Partial Locked Down countries … after the pandemic. We also show increased political mistrust among world's major economic players. Through a Panel data …
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An Unnecessary Proposal : A WTO Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines
Baachus, James - 2021
COVID-19 vaccines, several developing countries have asked other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to join them …
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Offshoring, Trade and Environmental Policies : Effects of Transboundary Pollution
Kawata, Keisuke - 2013
This study develops a two-country model, Home and Foreign, with offshoring and environmental spillover. A final good producer in Home can produce (homogeneous) final goods using customized inputs produced by its partner-supplier in Foreign. The intermediate input price is determined by Nash...
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