On skewness of return and buying more than one ticket in a lottery

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.