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Gambling spending and its concentration on problem gamblers

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  • Fiedler, Ingo
  • Kairouz, Sylvia
  • Costes, Jean-Michel
  • Weißmüller, Kristina S.

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While most gamblers spend moderate amounts of money, a few spend much more. This leads to spending being concentrated among a small number of players. Building on a body of literature that shows disproportionate spending by problem gamblers, we hypothesize that problem gambling causes such concentration. We investigate this hypothesis empirically by using GINI coefficients derived from survey datasets of gamblers from three different jurisdictions: France, Québec, and Germany.

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  • Fiedler, Ingo & Kairouz, Sylvia & Costes, Jean-Michel & Weißmüller, Kristina S., 2019. "Gambling spending and its concentration on problem gamblers," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 98(C), pages 82-91.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:98:y:2019:i:c:p:82-91
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.01.040
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