The Oxford handbook of the economics of gambling / edited by Donald S. Siegel and Leighton Vaughan-Williams.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description
1 online resource (740 p.)

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Summary note
This handbook is a definitive source of path-breaking research on the economics of gambling. It is divided into sections on casinos, sports betting, horserace betting, betting strategy motivation, behaviour and decision-making in betting markets prediction markets and political betting, and lotteries and gambling machines.
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Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 15, 2013).
Language note
English
Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Casinos
  • The employment impact of casino gambling in the U.K. / Gary Anders
  • The economics of casino taxation / John E. Anderson
  • The elasticity of casino gambling / Mark W. Nichols and Mehmet Serkan Tosun
  • The economics of Asian casino and gambling / Ricardo Chi Sen, Siu
  • How does implementation of a smoking ban affect gaming? / John C. Navin, Timothy S. Sullivan, and Warren D. Richards
  • Overview of the economics and social impacts of gambling in the United States / Douglas M. Walker
  • Sports betting
  • The economics of online sports betting / George Diemer and Ryan M. Rodenberg
  • The football pools / David Forrest and Levi Pérez
  • The efficiency of soccer betting markets / John Goddard
  • The efficiency of pelota betting markets / Lorento Llorente, Josemari Aizpurua, and Javier Puértolas
  • The lure of the pitcher : how the baseball betting market is influenced by elite starting pitchers / Rodney volume Paul, Andrew P. Weinbach, and Brad R. Humphreys
  • Information efficiency in high-frequency betting markets / J. James Reade and John Goddard
  • Horserace betting
  • On the long-run sustainability of tote betting markets / David Edelman
  • The economics of racetrack-casino (racino) gambling / Richard Thalheimer
  • The modern racing landscape and the racetrack wagering market : components of demand, subsidies and efficiency / Ramon P. DeGennaro and Ann B. Gillette
  • What explains the existence of an exchange overround? / David Marginson
  • Insider trading in betting markets / Adi Schnytzer
  • Pricing decisions and insider trading in fixed-odds horse betting markets / Adi Schnytzer, Vasiliki Makropoulo, and Martien Lamers
  • Betting strategy
  • Betting on simultaneous events and accumulator gambles / Andrew Grant
  • A primer on the mathematics of gambling / Robert C. Hannum
  • The science and economics of poker / Robert C. Hannum
  • The Kelly criterion with games of chance / Leonard C. Maclean and William T. Ziemba
  • Exploiting expert analysis' evidence in event studies in an information-rich market environment / Michael A. Smith
  • Motivation, behavior and decision-making in betting markets
  • Betting motivation and behavior / Alistair Bruce
  • Motivation in betting markets : speculation, calculus or fun? / Les Coleman
  • Evidence of biased decision-making in betting markets / David McDonald, Ming-Chien Sung, and Johnnie Johnson
  • Behavioral finance and point-spread wagering markets / Greg Durham
  • Prediction markets and political betting
  • A simple automated market maker for prediction markets / David Johnstone
  • The long history of political betting markets : an international perspective / Paul W. Rhode and Koleman Strumpf
  • Lotteries and gambling machines
  • The efficiency of lottery markets / David Forrest and David Gulley
  • The national lottery / John Lepper and Stephen Creigh-Tyte
  • The benefits and costs of slot machine gambling / Scott Farrow and Chava Carter
  • The economics of lotteries : a survey of the literature / Grote and Matheson
  • The taxation of gambling machines : a theoretical perspective / Leighton Vaughan Williams and David Paton.
Other title(s)
Economics of gambling
ISBN
  • 9780199376698
  • 0199376697
  • 9780199984794
  • 0199984794
  • 9780199376629
  • 019937662X
OCLC
860923265
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