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[...]... Gaming in the Remain School of Finance at the University of Denver Brad R Humphreys is Professor of Economics and Chair in the Economics of Gaming in the Department of Economics at the University of Alberta Johnnie Johnson is Professor of Decision and Risk Analysis and Director of the Centre for Risk Research at the University of Southampton David Johnstone is Professor in Finance at the University of Sydney... Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Oviedo and a Member of the Research Staff of the Fundación Observatorio Económico del Deporte Javier Puértolas is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the Public University of Navarre in Spain J James Reade is Lecturer in Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Birmingham Paul Rhode is a Professor... Navin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Mark W Nichols is Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Reno David Paton is Professor of Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School contributors xi Rodney J Paul is a Professor in Department of Sport Management at the David B Falk College of Sport and... for Risk Research in the School of Management, University of Southampton Vasiliki Makropoulou is Research Associate at Athens University of Economics and Business David Marginson is Head of the Accounting and Finance Section and Professor of Management Accounting at Cardiff Business School Victor Matheson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester,... the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan Warren Richards is an instructor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Ryan Rodenberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University Adi Schnytzer is Associate Professor of Economics at Bar Ilan University Donald S Siegel is Professor and Dean of the. .. School of Business at the University at Albany, SUNY Ricardo Siu is Associate Professor of Business Economics in the Department of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Macau Michael Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Leeds Business School Koleman Strumpf is Koch Professor of Economics at the University of Kansas School of Business Timothy S Sullivan is an instructor in the Department... modern Lottery while also describing the economics of the National Lottery Scott Farrow and Chava Carter of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, assess the costs and benefits of slot machine gambling This chapter begins by defining the slot machine segment of the gambling industry and then reviews the economics of these machines based on benefit-cost analysis They also review illustrative empirical... Grote of Lake Forest College and Victor Matheson of the College of the Holy Cross survey the literature on the economics of lotteries in terms of two central themes The first section examines the microeconomic aspects of lotteries, including consumer decision-making under uncertainty, price and income elasticities of demand for lottery tickets, cross-price elasticities of lottery tickets to each other... As of this writing, only highly aggregated tribal gaming revenue data are available from the National Indian Gaming Commission Because of this, proxies in the form of additional measures of gambling activity were used These variables include the number of casinos, the number of admissions into casinos, the total number of tables, the total number of slot machines, the number of wins per admission, the. .. literature on gaming and the restriction of smoking They then present an empirical analysis of the effects of a smoking ban on the riverboat casino market in the Illinois portion of the St Louis Metropolitan area The section on casinos concludes with a chapter by Douglas Walker of the College of Charleston, who summarizes empirical research on the economic and social impacts of gambling Issues considered . in the Remain School of Finance at the University of Denver. Brad R. Humphreys is Professor of Economics and Chair in the Economics of Gaming in the Department of Economics at the University of. Grote of Lake Forest College and Victor Matheson of the College of the Holy Cross survey the literature on the economics of lotteries in terms of two central themes. The first section examines the. Extension the oxford handbook of THE ECONOMICS OF GAMBLING Edited by LEIGHTON VAUGHAN WILLIAMS and DONALD S. SIEGEL 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers