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- Howells, Mark I., et al.
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Calabashes for kilowatt-hours : Rural energy and market failure
- 2010
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Ingår i: Energy Policy. - : Elsevier. - 0301-4215 .- 1873-6777. ; 38:6, s. 2729-2738
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper describes how management and information failures can retard transitions from the traditional use of biomass fuel by low income rural consumers and micro-producers. In general, societies move away from traditional biomass use as economic development takes place. If one accepts the doctrine of revealed preference (built on the initial work of Samuelson, 1938), then these trends imply that such transitions provide net gains in utility. This paper shows how various "failures" entrench existing fuel use patterns-hindering the transition to new fuel use patterns. In order to qualitatively discuss how these transitions may take place, an indicative neo-classical description of consumer and producer behavior is used. Three types fuel-transition "driver" are identified. The effect of information and management failures on these drivers, and thus the energy transition, is discussed. Reference is made to a specific case study in which a partial transition from biomass occurred in response to an intervention to address an environmental management failure (the deforesting of a carbon sink.) It is concluded that interventions to encourage transitions to cleaner sustainable fuel use may need to recognize and address management and information failures in a systematic manner.
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- Jonsson, Jakob, et al.
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Offering an auto-play feature likely increases total gambling activity at online slot-machines : preliminary evidence from an interrupted time series experiment at a real-life online casino
- 2024
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Psychiatry. - 1664-0640. ; 15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Auto-play is a ubiquitous feature in online casino gambling and virtual slot machines especially, allowing gamblers to initiate spin sequences of pre-set length and value. While theoretical accounts diverge on the hypothesized causal effect on gambling behavior of using the auto-play feature, observational findings show that this feature is used to a higher degree by problem and/or high-intensity gamblers, suggesting that banning this feature may constitute a global responsible gambling measure. Direct, experimental research on causal effects of offering auto-play at online casinos is however lacking. Here, we report the findings of an interrupted time series experiment, conducted at a real-life online casino in Sweden, in which the auto-play feature was made available during a pre-set duration on 40 online slot machines, with 40 matched slots serving as control. Aggregated time series on daily betted amount, spins and net losses were analyzed using a structural Bayesian framework that compared observed developments during the peri-intervention period to modeled counterfactual estimates. Results suggest that offering an auto-play feature on online casinos likely increases total gambling activity in terms of betted amount (approx.+ 7-9%) and (perhaps) number of spins (approx. +3%) but has no effect on net losses. Limitations of studying auto-play effects on a population-level, as well as the complexities of banning this feature within a complex ecosystem of non-perfect channelization to licensed providers, are discussed, including suggestions for future research.
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- Lindner, Philip, et al.
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Transitioning Between Online Gambling Modalities and Decrease in Total Gambling Activity, but No Indication of Increase in Problematic Online Gambling Intensity During the First Phase of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Sweden : A Time Series Forecast Study
- 2020
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Ingår i: Frontiers In Public Health. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 2296-2565. ; 8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introduction: The COVID-19 outbreak will likely have a public health impact beyond immediate disease transmission. Little is known about whether social distancing and other societal changes has provoked an increase in gambling, whether decreased betting opportunities due to paused sports events spurred gamblers to transition to online casino gambling, or whether any of these factors have had an impact on problem gambling.Methods: Data on lookup queries against the Swedish Gambling Paus registry, logging all initiated gambling sessions by all licensed gambling providers, from 2019-01-01 (start of registry) to 2020-04-08 (well into the first phase of the outbreak) were analyzed using TBATS time series forecasting to estimate trends after the first domestic COVID-19 death. Obfuscated data on daily total wagered and deposited amounts, split by modality (casino or betting, and low and high intensity, respectively) for the equivalent period were supplied by a licensed online gambling provider.Results: Total gambling activity decreased by 13.29% during the first phase of the outbreak compared to forecast. Analyses of online gambling data revealed that although betting decreased substantially in synchrony with a slight increase in online casino gambling, there was no increase in likely problematic, high-intensity gambling and neither did total online gambling increase.Conclusions: This first, preliminary study revealed no increase in Swedish gambling activity, total or specifically online, in the first phase of the COVID-19 outbreak. Future research should examine whether pandemic-induced transitioning between gambling modalities and/or increased participation in gambling, leads to long-term effects on prevalence of problem gambling.
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- Elg, Ulf, et al.
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IKEA: Entering Russia
- 2014
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Ingår i: International Marketing 4th edition. ; , s. 529-533
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Elg, Ulf, et al.
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IKEA: Entering Russia
- 2010. - 3
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Ingår i: International Marketing. ; , s. 584-587
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- Elg, Ulf, et al.
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IKEA: Expanding in Russia
- 2022. - 5
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Ingår i: International Marketing. ; , s. 515-520
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