On the Disclosure of Ticket Sales in Charitable Lotteries

Damianov, D.S.; Peeters, R.

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2016.11.012

On the Disclosure of Ticket Sales in Charitable Lotteries

Damianov, D.S.; Peeters, R.

Authors

Professor Damian Damianov damian.damianov@durham.ac.uk
Professor

R. Peeters

Abstract

We show that a policy of disclosing the ticket sales during a fundraising lottery raises total revenue when there are more than two bettors. The optimal timing of the disclosure is when about half of the players have purchased lottery tickets.

Citation

Damianov, D., & Peeters, R. (2017). On the Disclosure of Ticket Sales in Charitable Lotteries. Economics Letters, 150, 73-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.11.012

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Nov 11, 2016
Online Publication Date	Nov 16, 2016
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2017
Deposit Date	Nov 16, 2016
Publicly Available Date	May 16, 2018
Journal	Economics Letters
Print ISSN	0165-1765
Publisher	Elsevier
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	150
Pages	73-76
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.11.012
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1400700

Files

Accepted Journal Article (247 Kb)
PDF

Publisher Licence URL
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Copyright Statement
© 2016 This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/