Current Market Overview

Gainsbury, Sally

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3390-3_2

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“…Examples include virtually mediated casino games, slot machines, bingo, lotteries, sports betting, horse racing and games, all of which are at the same time developing into a more socially acceptable and legally available activity. Gainsbury (2012) documents that Internet gambling is one of the fastest growing forms of gambling, surpassing the worldwide box office revenues. Internet gambling is not prohibited in the countries considered in this study.…”

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Nordic stock market performance of the travel and leisure industry during the first wave of Covid-19 pandemic

Lin

Falk

2021

Tourism Economics

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This article investigates the performance of the stock market and its volatility in the travel and leisure industry for three Nordic countries using daily data from June 2018 to June 2020, a period that includes the first wave of Covid-19 pandemic. The methodology is based on the Markov regime switching model that allows unobservable regime shifts in the stock return relationship between the travel and leisure industry and the overall market in the period before the outbreak of Covid-19 crisis and during the recovery period at the end of the first wave. The results provide strong evidence of regime switching behaviour in the form of idiosyncratic risk as measured by volatility. The period before Covid-19 corresponds to a low/medium idiosyncratic risk, while the period of the pandemic is characterized by a regime with high idiosyncratic risk. Overall, the timing, likelihood and duration of this crisis regime depend on the composition of the travel and leisure firms. Those with a large proportion of online gambling firms perform better, while those consisting of international transportation firms, hotels and restaurants perform negatively. This study shows that the high-frequency data and the model chosen here can provide timely information on the impact of the pandemic on various tourism and leisure businesses that could be useful for policymaking.

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Section: Conceptual Background and Empirical Modelmentioning

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Nordic stock market performance of the travel and leisure industry during the first wave of Covid-19 pandemic

Lin

Falk

2021

Tourism Economics

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“…Accordingly, excessive Internet use can refer to different Web-based services, such as Web-based computer games [12], gambling [13], sexual content [14], or communicative apps such as chat or social networks [15] that differ in their “addictive” potential. Of particular concern for addiction behaviors are Web-based role-play games and sexual content [16].…”

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Attachment Style and Internet Addiction: An Online Survey

Eichenberg¹,

Schott²,

Decker³

et al. 2017

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundOne of the clinically relevant problems of Internet use is the phenomenon of Internet addiction. Considering the fact that there is ample evidence for the relationship between attachment style and substance abuse, it stands to reason that attachment theory can also make an important contribution to the understanding of the pathogenesis of Internet addiction.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to examine people’s tendency toward pathological Internet usage in relation to their attachment style.MethodsAn online survey was conducted. Sociodemographic data, attachment style (Bielefeld questionnaire partnership expectations), symptoms of Internet addiction (scale for online addiction for adults), used Web-based services, and online relationship motives (Cyber Relationship Motive Scale, CRMS-D) were assessed. In order to confirm the findings, a study using the Rorschach test was also conducted.ResultsIn total, 245 subjects were recruited. Participants with insecure attachment style showed a higher tendency to pathological Internet usage compared with securely attached participants. An ambivalent attachment style was particularly associated with pathological Internet usage. Escapist and social-compensatory motives played an important role for insecurely attached subjects. However, there were no significant effects with respect to Web-based services and apps used. Results of the analysis of the Rorschach protocol with 16 subjects corroborated these results. Users with pathological Internet use frequently showed signs of infantile relationship structures in the context of social groups. This refers to the results of the Web-based survey, in which interpersonal relationships were the result of an insecure attachment style.ConclusionsPathological Internet use was a function of insecure attachment and limited interpersonal relationships.

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“…We, therefore, retain the null hypothesis that these forms do not meaningfully contribute to gambling problems in Australia. It has been proposed that associations between less common forms and gambling problems may reflect the tendency of people with gambling problems to gamble on more forms, rather than being due to the characteristics of the form itself ( Brosowski, Olason, Turowski, & Hayer, 2021 ; Delfabbro et al., 2020 ; Gainsbury, 2012 ). However, bingo showed no association with gambling problems, despite being the least prevalent form (1.4%).…”

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Unambiguous evidence that over half of gambling problems in Australia are caused by electronic gambling machines: Results from a large-scale composite population study

Browne

Delfabbro

Thorne

et al. 2023

JBA

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Background and aimsIt is well understood that engagement with some forms of gambling, like EGMs, is riskier than other forms. However, while reports of associations are common, few studies have attempted to evaluate and compare the relative risk of all available forms, and none have estimated the relative contribution of each form to the total burden of gambling problems (GP) in a population.MethodsUsing an aggregated dataset of national and state-based prevalence studies in Australia (N = 71,103), we estimated prevalence and unique effects of frequency of engagement on each form on GP. Two alternative numerical methods were then applied to infer the relative contribution of each form to the total amount of GP.ResultsEGMs are responsible for 51%–57% of gambling problems in Australia, and 90% of gambling problems are attributable to EGMs, casino, race, and sports betting. Casino table games and EGMs are equally risky at the individual level, but the former contribute far less to problems due to low participation. Bingo and lottery play show no statistically detectable risk for GP.Discussion and conclusionThe results illustrate which forms present the greatest population burden and illuminate the reasons why. EGMs have an outsized impact. EGM uniquely combines high risk conditional on play, with a high participation rate and a high frequency of play among participants. This is in contrast to risky but less commonly played casino games, and prevalent but non-risky forms like lotteries. We conclude that EGM regulation should be a primary focus of policy action in Australia. More innovative policy ideas relating to EGMs should be tested due to the disproportionate impact of this product type.

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Current Market Overview

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References 20 publications

Nordic stock market performance of the travel and leisure industry during the first wave of Covid-19 pandemic

Nordic stock market performance of the travel and leisure industry during the first wave of Covid-19 pandemic

Attachment Style and Internet Addiction: An Online Survey

Unambiguous evidence that over half of gambling problems in Australia are caused by electronic gambling machines: Results from a large-scale composite population study

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