In recent years there has been a substantial increase in the Italian gambling market and we have witnessed major changes in the taxation and regulation of gambling, as well as the introduction of new technological supports (e.g. the internet, mobile and fixed telephony, dedicated TV channels,...

Le imprese grazie ai social media dispongono di nuovi strumenti - digitali e interattivi - per raggiungere il pubblico; i consumatori li utilizzano per condividere contenuti di vario genere, tra i quali: esperienze personali, opinioni e consigli che hanno per oggetto anche brand e prodotti. Non...

In this paper, we seek to integrate the socio-psychological analysis of gambling behavior with the economic one. In particular, on the base of a questionnaire administered to university students, we analyze how attitudes towards risk, more precisely, the amount at stake at which preference for...

Beginning with the 1990’s, the gaming services sector has undergone several changes that have induced governments to review gambling taxes. We examine the economic rationale behind actual and prospected reforms, comparing different tax instruments with respect to their incidence.

The gaming sector has recently been characterized by a process of liberalization and technological innovation, which has increased the number of available products and operators, thus increasing the degree of market competition. On the fiscal side, the effect of these changes has been the...

We analyze differences in gambling motivations for skill and luck gamblers on the basis of a questionnaire distributed to a sample of university students. We find that the probability of playing skill rather than luck games is positively correlated to being a male, to the socialization motive...

Purpose: The authors have systematically reviewed 534 corporate social responsibility communication (CSRC) papers, updating the current debate about the ontological and epistemological paradigms that characterize the field, and providing evidence of the interactions between these paradigms and...