Research Center for Gambling
At the research center for gaming at the University of Hohenheim , games and betting are the subject of interdisciplinary research. The term gambling is broadly defined, ranging from lottery , roulette , card and slot games , sports and other bets on winning games to board games .
history
The research center has existed at the University of Hohenheim since 2004; the managing director is Tilman Becker. The members of the research center are made up of scientists from various specialist areas who focus on gambling . In 2016, more than 20 professors were members of the research center. They come from the fields of regulatory and consumer policy , consumer research, mathematics and statistics , finance , public and civil law , economic theory , communication and information sciences , household and gender economics, marketing , game theory and econometrics, as well as psychology and medicine .
aims
The aim is to systematically and scientifically investigate the areas of gambling and betting under legal, economic, mathematical, social, medical and psychological issues.
In practice it has been shown that the individual disciplines come to different conclusions as long as they do not relate their research results. Such contradicting assessments and attitudes are examined by the research center.
Symposia
Symposia on gambling are held annually. Among other things, the legal side as well as addiction prevention and the economic effects of gambling are considered. Over 200 representatives from all areas, including psychology and medicine, take part in the one to two-day event at the University of Hohenheim.
Advisory Board
An advisory board is assigned to the research center for gaming, which among other things has the task of advising the scientific management of the research center and initiating research projects. In addition to four representatives from the University of Hohenheim, another five members are provided by companies and institutions that support the research center, including an employee and a former managing director of the Staatliche Toto-Lotto GmbH Baden-Württemberg , a representative of the Baden-Württemberg casinos and one representative each the area of the state ministries and the Protestant church.
Research needs
From the point of view of the interdisciplinary research center Gambling, there is a particular need for research in the following areas (as of November 2013):
regulation
- Political economic analysis of the gambling market
- Regulation of the gambling market from the point of view of economic theory
- Effects of regulatory measures on gaming behavior
- Social benefits and costs of individual regulatory measures
- Application of the advertising guidelines and effects on the respective forms of gaming
- Relationship between the availability of games of chance and problematic or pathological gambling behavior
- Duties and powers of gambling commissions in other European countries
- Tasks and powers of a German gambling commission to be created
Prevalences
- Frequency of gambling among children and adolescents and age- or gender-specific peculiarities
- Analysis of the internet offer of games of chance
- Online or “terrestrial” - who plays where and when?
- Debt of problematic / pathological gamblers
- Gambling and crime among adolescents and adults
- Gambling and money laundering
Prevention and therapy
- Preventive measures and their evidence base
- Reasons for participating in games of chance for players with and without problematic gambling behavior
- Substitution and complementarity relationships between forms of gaming
- Pathological Gambler's Relationship to Money
- Risk-taking pathological gamblers
- Cognitive errors and pathological gambling behavior
- The player ban as an instrument of player protection
- Definition and investigation of the risk groups (taking into account migration background, gender aspects, etc.)
Economy
- Gambling taxation
- Fraud, manipulation and crime risk potential of individual gambling offers
- Internet gambling providers: specialists and full-liners
- Competition in the gaming market
- Mergers and acquisitions with providers of games of chance
- Analysis of the consumption of games of chance
Publications (excerpts)
- T. Becker: Availability and addiction to slot machines. In: Contributions to gambling. A series of the authorities mirror. Issue 1/2016, pp. 13–15.
- T. Becker: Why is the regulation of the gaming market failing? In: Journal for Betting and Gambling Law, ISSN 2192-0141 , 2015, pp. 410–419, online (freely accessible).
- T. Becker: Regulation of the gambling market - problems and possible solutions. In: Contributions to gambling. A series of the authorities mirror. Issue 1/2015, pp. 10–12.
- T. Becker: Why is the regulation of the gaming market failing? In: G. Sander, T. Scheel, A. Esposito: Public Law in Transition - Liber amicorum Armin Dittmann. Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2015, pp. 167–188.
- T. Becker, K. Heinze: Effects of planned distance regulations and regulations on concession sizes on amusement arcades using the example of selected municipalities in Baden-Württemberg. (= Hohenheim discussion papers on gambling research. No. 3). 2017.
- Andrea Wöhr, Marius Wuketich (Hrsg.): Multidisciplinary consideration of the complex phenomenon of gambling. Festschrift in honor of the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. Tilman Becker , Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-24971-7 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-658-24972-4 .
Series of publications
In: Series of publications on gambling research. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main
- T. Becker (Ed.): Interim evaluation of the State Treaty on Gaming: Contributions to the 2014 and 2015 Symposia of the Gaming Research Center. Volume 16, 2016.
- T. Becker: Availability and addiction to slot machines. Volume 15, 2015.
- C. Weinbuch: Prevention of sports betting manipulation and autonomy of sport. Volume 14, 2015.
- T. Becker (Hrsg.): Addiction, fraud and crime risk potential of games of chance: Contributions to the 2013 Symposium of the Gaming Research Center. Volume 13, 2015.
- T. Becker (Ed.): The new State Treaty on Gaming: Contributions to the 2012 Symposium of the Gaming Research Center. Volume 12, 2014.
- C. Brugger: Abortion of payment flows as a means of combating illegal Internet gambling. Volume 11, 2013.
- T. Becker: Latest developments on the State Treaty on Gaming: Contributions to the 2011 Symposium of the Gaming Research Center. Volume 10, 2012.
- T. Hayer: Young people and problems related to gambling - risk conditions, development models and implications for preventive action strategies. Volume 9. 2012.
- T. Becker (Ed.): Interim balance sheet on the State Treaty on Gambling for Lotteries and Sports Betting: Contributions to the 2010 Symposium of the Research Center for Gambling. Volume 8. 2011.
- T. Becker: Social costs of gambling in Germany. Volume 7, 2011.
- T. Becker (Ed.): Gambling on the Internet: Contributions to the 2009 Symposium of the Gambling Research Center. Volume 6, 2011.
- T. Becker: Advertising for products with a potential for addiction: Tobacco, alcohol and gambling advertising from a legal, economic and psychological point of view. Volume 5, 2010.
- T. Becker: Gambling addiction in Germany - prevalence in different forms of gambling. Volume 4, 2009.
- T. Becker (Ed.): The State Treaty on Gaming and its Implementation: Contributions to the 2007 and 2008 Symposium of the Gaming Research Center. Volume 3, 2009.
- T. Becker, C. Baumann (Ed.): Gambling in transition: Contributions to the 2006 Symposium of the Gambling Research Center. Volume 2, 2007.
- T. Becker, C. Baumann (eds.): Society and gambling: State regulation and addiction prevention. Volume 1, 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Symposia / Workshops , homepage of the Research Unit Gambling, accessed on April 30, 2016.
- ↑ Research Center for Gambling, Activity Report 2009 ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Members of the Scientific Management and the Advisory Board , homepage of the Gambling Research Center, accessed on January 27, 2019.