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Sports gambling as consumption: Evidence from demand for sports lottery

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  • Luke Lunhua Mao
  • James J. Zhang
  • Daniel P. Connaughton

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•Examined the demand for sports lottery based on the data of a Chinese football pool.•Found that the sports lottery has consumption value for players. Consumption value accounted for 8% of the variance in the demand for sports lottery.•Marketing variables and structural arrangements had significant impact on demand.Although the fact that sports lottery has become a prevalent phenomenon, it remains an under-researched area in sport management literature. Based on Conlisk's (1993) theory on the utility of gambling, an econometric model of demand for sports lottery gambling was constructed. The model assumes an experiential utility associated with sports lottery gambling, and proposes that rational consumers are mainly motivated by product attributes and marketing variables. The model is empirically examined by using a set of draw-to-draw sales data of a sports lottery in China. Time series analyses were conducted to analyze the determinants of sports lottery demand. This study revealed that ticket composition had considerable impact on the demand after partialling out information through the inclusion of an ex-post Prediction Difficulty Coefficient in the regression model. Eight percent of variance in the demand for sports lottery was found to be associated with ticket composition variables. The results provide additional evidence to the existing literature on sports gambling as consumption. The notion that nonmonetary activities associated with sports lottery gaming have a consumption value has considerable implications in terms of designing lottery products and delivering value to its consumers.

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  • Luke Lunhua Mao & James J. Zhang & Daniel P. Connaughton, 2015. "Sports gambling as consumption: Evidence from demand for sports lottery," Sport Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(3), pages 436-447, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsmrxx:v:18:y:2015:i:3:p:436-447
    DOI: 10.1016/j.smr.2014.11.006
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    1. Li-Wei Liu & Ying-Hsiao Lai & Tsung-Hua Hsieh, 2022. "The Online Betting Behavior of Sport Lottery Consumers," International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications (IJESMA), IGI Global, vol. 14(1), pages 1-18, January.
    2. Yufei Bai & Wenjing Liu & Wujian Yang & Wen Zuo & Hemin Song, 2023. "Urbanization, Industrial Structure Upgrading, and Lottery Consumption based on the Sustainable Development of the Emerging Markets: Evidence from China," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(2), pages 21582440231, June.
    3. Agha, Nola & Tyler, B. David, 2017. "An investigation of highly identified fans who bet against their favorite teams," Sport Management Review, Elsevier, vol. 20(3), pages 296-308.
    4. Day-Yang Liu & Wen-Chun Tsai & Chung-Yi Fang & Pei-Leen Liu, 2019. "Determinants of Managerial Performance on Taiwan Sports Lottery in System Dynamics Modeling of Strategic Management Approach," Journal of Applied Finance & Banking, SCIENPRESS Ltd, vol. 9(5), pages 1-10.
    5. Day-Yang Liu & Chia-Yang Chang & Chung-Yi Fang & Pei-Leen Liu, 2020. "Research on the Issuance and Distribution Model of Sports Lottery in Taiwan from a Systems Thinking Perspective," Journal of Applied Finance & Banking, SCIENPRESS Ltd, vol. 10(5), pages 1-4.

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