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Banking on Gambling: Banks and Lottery-Linked Deposit Accounts

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Mauro F. Guillén
Adrian E. Tschoegl

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Lottery-linked deposit accounts have proved to be popular around the world. From the point of view of a bank, these products are especially successful among relatively low-income customers, or in markets in which many people are outside the banking system. Below, we describe numerous examples of such accounts, and analyze their economics.

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Paper provided by Wharton School Center for Financial Institutions, University of Pennsylvania in its series Center for Financial Institutions Working Papers with number 00-25.

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  1. Marie Pfiffelmann, 2006. "Which Optimal Design For LLDAs?," Working Papers of LaRGE (Laboratoire de Recherche en Gestion et Economie) 2006-06, Laboratoire de Recherche en Gestion et Economie, Université de Strasbourg (France). [Downloadable!]
  2. Olga Bourachnikova, 2007. "Weighting Function in the Behavioral Portfolio Theory," Working Papers CEB 07-011.RS, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Centre Emile Bernheim (CEB). [Downloadable!]
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  3. Marie Pfiffelmann, 2007. "Which Optimal Design for Lottery Linked Deposit Accounts?," Working Papers CEB 07-010.RS, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Centre Emile Bernheim (CEB). [Downloadable!]
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