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What Is A Game Of Chance? An Application To Loot Boxes, Wessel Oomens
What Is A Game Of Chance? An Application To Loot Boxes, Wessel Oomens
International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking
The traditional landscape of games of chance such as lotteries, betting, casinos and slots has become intertwined with complex financial products as well as digital games with elements of chance.
The Netherlands Gambling Authority has issued a guidance paper outlining a five-step decision process in order to determine whether a game classifies as gambling:
- Threshold: is the number of providers, players and the amount money involved considerable enough to warrant spending resources in assessing the game?
- Overlap: is there potential overlap with other rules and regulations, in particular those governing financial products?
- Prize: does the game award its winners with …
Unlocking Access To Health Care: A Federalist Approach To Reforming Occupational Licensing, Gabriel Scheffler
Unlocking Access To Health Care: A Federalist Approach To Reforming Occupational Licensing, Gabriel Scheffler
All Faculty Scholarship
Several features of the existing occupational licensing system impede access to health care without providing appreciable protections for patients. Licensing restrictions prevent health care providers from offering services to the full extent of their competency, obstruct the adoption of telehealth, and deter foreign-trained providers from practicing in the United States. Scholars and policymakers have proposed a number of reforms to this system over the years, but these proposals have had a limited impact for political and institutional reasons.
Still, there are grounds for optimism. In recent years, the federal government has taken a range of initial steps to reform licensing …