In the Ultimatum Game, two players are offered a chance to win a certain sum of money. All they must do is divide it. The proposer suggests how to split the sum. The responder can accept or reject the deal. If the deal is rejected, neither player gets anything. The rational solution, suggested by game theory, is for the proposer to offer the smallest possible share and for the responder to acce...

Loot boxes are digital containers of randomised rewards present in some video games which often purchasable for real world money. Recently, concerns have been raised that loot might approximate traditional gambling activities, and people with problems shown to spend more on than peers without problems. Some argue the regulation as gambling-like mechanics is inappropriate because similar activit...

With recent introduction of poker machines in Australia, there have been claims of increases in the number of women with gambling-related problems. Research in the United States indicates however, that men have a higher incidence of pathological gambling. The aims of this study were to ascertain among game machine users in a major city in Australia whether (a) more women than men exhibited symp...

BACKGROUND Although the effects of gambling on cardiovascular parameters have been documented, no data exists describing the effect of gambling on stress hormone secretion. Our study investigated the effect of gambling on heart rate and salivary cortisol in a casino environment. METHODS Ten male gamblers participated in both an experimental and control session. In the experimental session, ga...

there are several senses in which the term gambling is used. all have liabilities, problems that have muddied the waters in scientific research, generated conflicting legal decisions, compromised debates over ethical and moral issues, and have led to uneven legislation. Here, a novel framework for the term is offered, based on two continuous variables: a) the Expected Value (EV) of any arbitrar...

The gambling industry is a big business worldwide. Research on gambling behaviour has mostly centred on cognitiveand affect-based theories. In this study, totally stochastic patterns of consumption were assumed. It was hypothesized that gambling behaviour for any game followed a predictable pattern that could be modelled at both the product and the category level. An empirical study using the 1...

We develop a method for estimating the rivalness of tax bases using the structures of the conditional logit, Poisson and nested logit models. As an illustration, we apply this method to estimate the e↵ect of state-level capital taxation on U.S. inward foreign direct investment. The assumption of perfect non-rivalenss can in some cases be rejected, but the assumption of perfect rivalness cannot....

What is the current place of mathematics in problem gambling research, and how can mathematics contribute toward minimizing the harmful effects of excessive gambling? In this paper, I answer the first question; then I draw upon the main principles and propose further research in the matter of the second question. First, mathematics is strongly connected to gambling through the mathematical mode...

Gambling advertising is often permeated by stereotypical portrayals of gender, including those male gamblers as tough and successful. Simultaneously, representations men in other has become increasingly diverse, emotional sexualized, heroic muscular portrayals. This article uses both these bodies research to discuss Swedish sports betting commercials from 2019–2020. It shows that different draw...

BACKGROUND Adolescent gambling and substance use are viewed as a public health concern internationally. The early onset age of gambling is a known risk factor for developing gambling problems later in life. The aims of this study are: to evaluate the internal consistency reliability, factorial validity and classification accuracy of the Finnish version of DSM-IV-Multiple Response-Juvenile (DSM-...