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The economics of gambling /
Against a background of extraordinary growth in the popularity of betting and gaming across many countries of the world, there has never been a greater need for a study into gambling's most important factor - its economics. This collection of original contributions drawn from such leading exper...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Leighton Vaughan Williams
- The favourite-longshot bias and the Gabriel and Marsden anomaly: an explanation based on utility theory / Michael Cain, David Peel and David Law
- Is the presence of inside traders necessary to give rise to a favorite-longshot bias? / Adi Schnytzer and Yuval Shilony
- Pari-mutuel place betting in Great Britain and Ireland: an extraordinary opportunity / David Jackson and Patrick Waldron
- Betting at British racecourses: a comparison of the efficiency of betting with bookmakers and at the Tote / John Peirson and Philip Blackburn
- Breakage, turnover, and betting market efficiency: new evidence from Japanese horse tracks / W. David Walls and Kelly Busche
- The impact of tipster information on bookmakers' prices in UK horse-race markets / Michael A. Smith
- On the marginal impact of information and arbitrage / Adi Schnytzer, Yuval Shilony and Richard Thorne
- Covarianace decompositions and betting markets: early insights using data from French trotting / Jack Dowie
- A competitive horse-race handicapping algorithm based on analysis of covariance / David Edelman
- Efficiency in the handicap and index betting markets for English rugby league / Robert Simmons, David Forrest and Anthony Curran
- Efficiency of the over-under betting market for National Football League games / Joseph Golec and Maurry Tamarkin
- Player injuries and price responses in the point spread wagering market / Raymond D. Sauer
- Is the UK National Lottery experiencing lottery fatigue? / Stephen Creigh-Tyte and Lisa Farrell
- Time-series modelling of Lotto demand / David Forrest
- Reconsidering the economic impact of Indian casino gambling / Gary C. Anders
- Investigating betting behaviour: a critical discussion of alternative methodological approaches / Alistair Bruce and Johnnie Johnson
- The demand for gambling: a review / David Paton, Donald S. Siegel and Leighton Vaughan Williams.