Peel, D and Law, D (2009) On skewness of return and buying more than one ticket in a lottery. Applied Economics Letters, 16 (10). pp. 1350-4851. ISSN 1350-4851
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Abstract
The purpose in this article is to demonstrate that buying more than one ticket in a lottery is readily explicable in models of utility that permit gambling at actuarially unfair odds. However, contrary to popular view, we show this choice cannot be explained in terms of a variance–skew trade-off.
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Journal Article
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Applied Economics Letters
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?? economics and econometricsdiscipline-based research ??
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45568
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Deposited On:
11 Jul 2011 18:34
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Yes
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Published
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