The illusion of control, the structures of prizes and the demand for football pools in Spain

Jaume Garcia Villar and Plácido Rodríguez

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Abstract: Using data for all the fixtures for the seasons from 1972-73 to 2002-03, we estimate a dynamic model of demand for football pools in Spain paying attention to whether their main economic explanatory variable is the effective price of a ticket or the jackpot. Additionally, we evaluate the importance of the composition of the list of games in terms of whether First Division matches are included or not. Results show that the jackpot model is preferred to the effective price model, having important implications in terms of how the structure of the game should be changed in order to increase demand.

Keywords: Lottery; football pools; effective price; jackpot (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 D80 L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-04
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