Gaming Research Center
The Gambling Research Center (Universität Hohenheim) examines the various aspects of gaming and gambling through an interdisciplinary scientific approach. The goal of the Center is to systematically and scientifically examine the wide range of topics relating to gaming and gambling such as lotteries, sports betting, card games and gaming machines. History. The Gambling Research Center was founded at the Universität Hohenheim in 2004 with Prof. Dr. Tilman Becker acting as its head. Scientists whose main interests concern games of chance may join the scientific management board of the research center. At present, more than 20 professors from  various disciplines and universities are members of the scientific management board. They bring their expertise from various fields of knowledge, such as consumer behavior, mathematics and statistics, finance, law, economic theory, communication and information science, household and gender economics, marketing, game theory, econometrics as well as psychology and medicine. Goals. The Gambling Research Center aims at scientifically examining all topics relating to gaming and gambling from an interdisciplinary, in particular economic, mathematic, social, medical, psychological, and legal point of view. Practice has shown that the individual disciplines come to different results as long as they do not relate their research  findings. Such conflicting assessments are being examined in the Gambling Research Center. Symposiums. Every year representatives from academia and business gather to discuss current trends in and aspects of the topic gambling and gaming. The legal and regulatory aspects play just as large a role as addiction prevention and the economic impacts of gambling. About 200 representatives from all fields, including psychology and medicine, participate in the one- to two-day conference at the Universität Hohenheim. Need for further research. The interdisciplinary Gambling Research Center suggests for further research in the following areas (state June 2011): Regulation Prevalence Prevention and  therapy Economics Xouridas, S., Jasny, J., Becker, T, in: Journal of Gambling Issues Series. Series for gambling research (each appeared in Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main) Gesellschafts- und Glücksspiel: Staatliche Regulierung und Suchtprävention. Band 1; Becker, T., Baumann, C. (Hrsg.); 2006