Handbook of sports and lottery markets
By: edited by Donald B. Hausch.
Contributors: Ziemba, W. T.
Series: Handbooks in finance
Publisher: Elsevier/North-Holland
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780444507440
Subjects: Sports betting; Lotteries; Gambling systems
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Pari-mutuel Horse Race Wagering – Competition from Within and Outside the Industry by Mukhtar Ali, University of Kentucky and Richard Thalheimer, University of Louisville
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: Modeling Money Bet on Horse Races in Hong Kong by John Bacon-Shone, University of Hong Kong and Alan Woods
pagenum: 17; label: 3
title: Utility and preference estimation by Bruno Jullien, Universite de Toulouse and Bernard Salanie, Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique
pagenum: 27; label: 4
title: Approximating the ordering probabilities of multi-entry competitions by a simple method by Victor Lo, Fidelity Investments, Boston and John Bacon-Shone, Social Sciences Research Centre. University of Hong Kong
pagenum: 51; label: 5
title: Modeling Distance Preference David Edelman
pagenum: 67; label: 6
title: The Favorite Longshot Bias: An Overview of the Main Explanations by Marco Ottaviani, London Business School and Peter Norman Sorensen, University of Copenhagen
pagenum: 83; label: 7
title: Examining explanations of a market anomaly: preferences or perceptions? by Erik Snowberg, Stanford University and Justin Wolfers, University of Pennsylvania
pagenum: 103; label: 8
title: Unifying the Favorite-Longshot Bias with Other Market Anomalies by Russell S. Sobel and Matt E. Ryan, Department of Economics, West Virginia University
pagenum: 137; label: 9
title: The Favorite-Longshot Bias in S&P 500 and FTSE 100 Index Futures Options: The Return to Bets and the Cost of Insurance by Robert G. Tompkins, Hochschule fur Bankwirtschaft, Germany, William T. Ziemba, UBC, and Stewart D. Hodges, Univesity of Warwick
pagenum: 161; label: 10
title: Efficiency of racetrack betting markets Donald B. Hausch, University of Wisconsin and William T. Ziemba, UBC
pagenum: 183; label: 11
title: Pointspread and Odds Betting in Baseball, Basketball and American Football Hal S. Stern, University of California, Irvine
pagenum: 223; label: 12
title: Comparing Efficiency of the Over/Under Bets on NFL and NBA Games by Joseph Golec and Murray Tamarkin, Clark University
pagenum: 239; label: 13
title: Arbitrage and risk arbitrage in Team Jai Alai Daniel Lane, University of Ottawa and William T. Ziemba, UBC
pagenum: 253; label: 14
title: Semi-strong form efficiency in the horserace betting market Johnnie Johnson and Ming-Chien Sung, University of Southhampton
pagenum: 275; label: 15
title: The dosage breeding theory for horseracing predictions  Marshall Gramm, Rhodes College and William T. Ziemba, UBC
pagenum: 307; label: 16
title: Efficiency in Horse Race Betting Markets: The Role of Professional Tipsters  Olivier Gergaud, University of Reims and Bruno Deschamps, University of Bath
pagenum: 341; label: 17
title: Index betting for sports and stock indices John Haigh, University of Sussex and Leighton Vaughan Williams, The Nottingham Trent University
pagenum: 357; label: 18
title: Prediction Markets: From Politics to Business (and Back) Erik Snowberg, Stanford University, Justin Wolfers, University of Pennsylvania and E. Zitzewitz, Dartmouth College
pagenum: 385; label: 19
title: Betting exchanges: a technological revolution in sports betting Michael A. Smith, Canterbury Christ Church University Leighton Vaughan Williams, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
pagenum: 403; label: 20
title: Soccer betting in Britain David Forrest, University of Salford
pagenum: 421; label: 21
title: Efficiency of soccer betting odds - evidence from a pan-European electronic market Stephen Kossmeier and Simon Weinberger, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria
pagenum: 447; label: 22
title: How to design a lottery Ian Walker, University of Warwick
pagenum: 459; label: 23
title: The statistics of lotteries John Haigh, University of Sussex
pagenum: 481; label: 24
title: US lotto markets Victor Matheson, Holy Cross College and K. Grote, Lake Forest College
pagenum: 503