Research report 2010 - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Skillful gambling

Authors
Towfigh, Emanuel; Glöckner, Andreas
Departments
Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Gemeinschaftsgütern
Summary
German law on gambling mainly rests on the differentiation between games of skill and games of chance. Games of chance are part of regulation and in fact monopolized, whereas skill games can also be offered by private providers. With regards to sports bets this differentiation might not be reasonable and needs to be questioned. Maybe reference to the danger of the game is a more appropriate criterion.

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