The paper proposes a simple and innovative methodology for measuring the incidence of gambling expenditure in countries … merging data on the geographical location of gambling outlets, together with residents' socio-economic and demographic … results and yields a measure of -0.42, which implies that the implicit tax associated with gambling is highly regressive. …

outlets in Israel for two years (2015-2016), I find that gambling revenue spikes at social security paydays. The estimation …

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 …