{"title":"Interdependent lotteries and the jackpot model of lottery demand","authors":"G. Geronikolaou","doi":"10.5750/JGBE.V12I2.1719","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Bettors may view different gambles either as substitutes or complements. Assuming that the grand prize is the main driver of the demand for multi-prize lottery bets, this paper presents a theory of lottery sales maximization considering possible complementarity or substitutability among different lottery gambles offered by a single operator. Optimal payout ratios are derived accounting not only for interrelation among games but also for their relative popularity. The new profit optimization rule is then applied to a dataset of two Greek lotteries.","PeriodicalId":109210,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Journal of Gambling Business and Economics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5750/JGBE.V12I2.1719","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Bettors may view different gambles either as substitutes or complements. Assuming that the grand prize is the main driver of the demand for multi-prize lottery bets, this paper presents a theory of lottery sales maximization considering possible complementarity or substitutability among different lottery gambles offered by a single operator. Optimal payout ratios are derived accounting not only for interrelation among games but also for their relative popularity. The new profit optimization rule is then applied to a dataset of two Greek lotteries.