conflicts with the requirements of the Supreme Court. -- Gambling ; sports betting ; brand marketing policy ; sports economics …Sport betting is in Germany, like other public lotteries, strictly regulated as a state monopoly. This state monopoly …. Following this sentence, a state monopoly in future has to maximize players’ protection and prevention of pathological gambling …

In many countries, betting in sports is highly regulated. In Germany, however, there are current debates whether … regulation should be loosened. A crucial part of the argument is that sport bets could be qualified as "games of skill" that are … problematic or pathological gambling behavior are even stronger for soccer bets compared to bets on the outcome of lotteries …

This paper examines whether sports betting markets are semistrong-form efficient—i.e., whether new information is …