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An analysis of country medal shares in individual sports at the Olympics (2016)
Journal Article
Forrest, D., McHale, I., Sanz, I., & de Tena, J. (2017). An analysis of country medal shares in individual sports at the Olympics. European Sport Management Quarterly, 17(2), 117-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2016.1248463

Research question: Several studies report modelling relating countries’ medal shares at the Olympics to population and per capita income (host status and political system are typically included as controls). This paper uses a similar model but disagg... Read More about An analysis of country medal shares in individual sports at the Olympics.

The compatriot win effect on national sales of a multicountry lottery (2016)
Journal Article
Baker, R., Forrest, D., & Perez, L. (2016). The compatriot win effect on national sales of a multicountry lottery. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 65(4), 603-618. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssc.12143

Euromillions is a lotto game played across nine countries.We examine more than 8
years of sales data for individual states to assess whether a jackpot win in a country increases
subsequent sales in that country.We propose a novel test for the prese... Read More about The compatriot win effect on national sales of a multicountry lottery.

Just like the lottery? Player behaviour and anomalies in the market for football pools (2015)
Journal Article
Forrest, D., & Pérez, L. (2015). Just like the lottery? Player behaviour and anomalies in the market for football pools. Journal of Gambling Studies, 31(2), 471-482. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-013-9423-4

Football pools were an antecedent to lotto in providing a long-odds, high-prize gambling opportunity for a mass market in Europe. Even after lotto has become well established, pools games continue to occupy a significant niche in the gaming market in... Read More about Just like the lottery? Player behaviour and anomalies in the market for football pools.

Modelling regional lottery sales : methodological issues and a case study from Spain (2014)
Journal Article
and a case study from Spain. Papers in Regional Science, 95(S1), S127-S142. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12118

Sales are modelled for 50 Spanish provinces over 522 draws of a high prize lotto
game.Acrossed random effects model allows for random shocks specific to particular draws and
to particular provinces. The paper explores how demographic and socio-econ... Read More about Modelling regional lottery sales : methodological issues and a case study from Spain.

Match fixing : an economics perspective (2013)
Book Chapter
Forrest, D. (2013). Match fixing : an economics perspective. In Match-Fixing in International Sports (177-197). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02582-7_10

Match fixing to serve betting interests is certainly as old as organised sport itself, for example it is believed to have been common in the case of eighteenth century professional cricket in England. And in the twentieth century, the history of spor... Read More about Match fixing : an economics perspective.

Impact of importing foreign talent on performance levels of local co-workers (2011)
Journal Article
Alvarez, J., Forrest, D., Sanz, I., & Tena, J. (2011). Impact of importing foreign talent on performance levels of local co-workers. Labour Economics, 18(3), 287-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2010.11.003

When skilled labour is imported to work in a creative industry, local workers may benefit, in terms of their
own level of skill, through contact with new techniques and practices. European basketball offers an
opportunity to investigate the reality... Read More about Impact of importing foreign talent on performance levels of local co-workers.

Evaluating the effects of game design on lotto sales: a case study from Spain (2010)
Journal Article
Forrest, D., Perez, L., & Baker, R. (2010). Evaluating the effects of game design on lotto sales: a case study from Spain. ˜The œjournal of gambling business and economics (Print), 4(2), 1-19

In February, 2005 the Spanish National Lottery Agency (LAE) made several modifications to the design of one of its lotto games. The entry fee was not changed but the familiar 6/49 format was replaced by 5/54 + 1/10. This considerably lengthened the o... Read More about Evaluating the effects of game design on lotto sales: a case study from Spain.

The 12th man?: refereeing bias in English and German soccer (2010)
Journal Article
German soccer. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 173(2), 431-449. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00604.x

The paper investigates potential bias in awards of player disciplinary sanctions, in
the form of cautions (yellow cards) and dismissals (red cards) by referees in the English Premier
League and the German Bundesliga. Previous studies of behaviour o... Read More about The 12th man?: refereeing bias in English and German soccer.

The relationship between betting and lottery play (2010)
Journal Article
Forrest, D., Gulley, O., & Simmons, R. (2010). The relationship between betting and lottery play. Economic Inquiry, 48(1), 26-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2008.00123.x

We apply a novel daily time series data set of daily turnover from one of Britain’s
leading bookmakers to analyze potential substitution between lottery play and
bookmaker betting. We find some evidence that bettors do substitute away from horse
r... Read More about The relationship between betting and lottery play.