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This paper offers a look at the Japanese mobile free to play market with a focus on "Gacha", a game of luck mechanism used in many Japanese games. The paper tries to explain about the concept of Gacha, its different forms, some known regulation issues and briefly looks at player and...
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calls for regulation because if their gambling like elements. Japan had similar mechanics in games for a long time called … Lootboxes are in comparison to "Gacha" in Japan and investigates whether they would qualify as gambling using a gambling … taxonomy. Lootboxes and Gacha can be seen as very similar and comparable and both would not qualify as gambling in traditional …
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This paper conceptualizes "Gacha", a lottery mechanism to win virtual items, which was developed in Japan, as game of …. Japan has a longer history and more experience in both monetization of mobile games with gambling like elements (Gacha) and …
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overcome the usually severe selection issues, we exploit a unique migration lottery that randomly assigns access to residence … variable approach, our results show that lottery compliers raise their employment probability in Liechtenstein by on average 24 … Liechtenstein prior to the lottery rather than by previous cross-border commuters, but even for the latter group, positive …
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incomplete information: offering rewards or threatening punishments. Attempts to influence another's behaviour can have the … under complete information, rewards can be preferable under incomplete information. The sender often could do better by … committing to a certain course of action for the entire duration of interaction. Moreover, using rewards and sanctions in …
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This paper studies the effect of oil discoveries on economic growth in Brazilian municipalities for the period from 1940 to 2000. It uses a unique identification strategy which exploits data on the drilling of approximately 20,000 oil wells in Brazil since oil explorations began in the country....
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