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Discounting Desirable Gambles [PDF]
, 2021 The desirable gambles framework offers the most comprehensive foundations for the theory of lower pre- visions, which in turn affords the most general ac- count of imprecise probabilities.
Wheeler, Gregory
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Waterfall illusion in risky choice – exposure to outcome-irrelevant gambles affects subsequent valuation of risky gambles [PDF]
, 2021 Based on recent discoveries in economics, neuroscience, and psychology, we hypothesize that pure exposure to high-payoff or low-payoff gambles can change people's subsequent reported valuations of gambles and confirm this hypothesis in a laboratory ...
Guo, Julie, Tymula, Agnieszka
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Journal of Economic Theory, 2013 This paper presents a strategic model of risk-taking behavior in contests. Formally, we analyze an n-player winner-take-all contest in which each player decides when to stop a privately observed Brownian Motion with drift. A player whose process reaches zero has to stop. The player with the highest stopping point wins. Contrary to the explicit cost for
Christian Seel, Philipp Strack
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Gambling and Comovements [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 AbstractThis study shows that correlated trading by gambling-motivated investors generates excess return comovement among stocks with lottery features. Lottery-like stocks comove strongly with one another, and this return comovement is strongest among lottery stocks located in regions where investors exhibit stronger gambling propensity.
Kumar, Alok +2 more
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Excessive Gambling and Online Gambling Communities [PDF]
Journal of Gambling Studies, 2018 The Internet provides an accessible context for online gambling and gambling-related online communities, such as discussion forums for gamblers. These communities may be particularly attractive to young gamblers who are active Internet users. The aim of this study was to examine the use of gambling-related online communities and their relevance to ...
Anu Sirola +2 more
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Disordered gambling, type of gambling and gambling involvement in the British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2007 [PDF]
The European Journal of Public Health, 2009 The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between types of gambling and disordered gambling, with and without controlling for gambling involvement (i.e. the number of types of games with which respondents were involved during the past 12 months).We completed a secondary data analysis of the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey (BGPS)
Debi A, LaPlante +3 more
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Belief gambles in epistemic decision theory [PDF]
, 2021 Don’t form beliefs on the basis of coin flips or random guesses. More generally, don’t take belief gambles: if a proposition is no more likely to be true than false given your total body of evidence, don’t go ahead and believe that proposition. Few would
Skipper, Mattias
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Predictors of gambling and problem gambling in Canada
Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2021 The purpose of this study is to provide an updated profile of gamblers and problem gamblers in Canada and to identify characteristics most strongly associated with problem gambling.An assessment of gambling participation and problem gambling was included in the 2018 Canadian Community Health Survey and administered to 23,952 individuals 18 years and ...
Robert J. Williams +9 more
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Can expected utility theory explain gambling? [PDF]
, 2002 We investigate the ability of expected utility theory to account for simultaneous gambling and insurance. Contrary to a previous claim that borrowing and lending in perfect capital markets removes the demand for gambles, we show expected utility theory ...
Farrell, Lisa +5 more
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BiD: Textos Universitaris de Biblioteconomia i Documentació, 2010 The Library of Birmingham is a major new cultural development for the 21st century, involving radical architecture and a radical redesign of the architecture of libraries as public spaces. The role of the library as a social and experiential learning hub
Gambles, Brian
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