The market for sweepstakes

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1009-1029

  Chew, Soo Hong ^a   Tan, Guofu ^b,c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMBLING; MARKET CONDITIONS;

EID: 27744476246     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0034-6527.00359     Document Type: Article

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