Anthony Cabot, Ngai Pindell, and Brian Wall, editors. Regulating Land-Based Casinos: Policies, Procedures, and Economics. Second Edition. Las Vegas: UNLV Gaming Press, 2018.

Once restricted to exotic locations like Las Vegas, Macau, and Monte Carlo, casinos are now operating in many cities nationally and internationally from the Maryland waterfront to Ho Chi Minh City. This expansion of the gaming industry, both geographically and economically, raises new and important policy questions about the role of government in gaming regulation, the obligations and opportunities for casinos, and public support for gambling and gaming tax revenue. The contributors to this book have decades of experience in gaming regulation and business and are optimistic about the future of gaming and casinos. Each author critically engages the subject and offers his or her insight into what works and what does not in the gaming business and gaming regulation. Whether a jurisdiction is considering legalizing gaming or deciding how to regulate an existing gaming industry, it should engage in a careful cost-benefit analysis informed by available data and the jurisdiction’s particular public policy goals.

Each chapter in this book considers a key component of this process. The chapters collect and analyze gaming research from a wide variety of disciplines, including law, business, social sciences, economics, and tax to explain the many approaches a jurisdiction might take to identify and address important policy goals and to suggest emerging issues that require additional research and data. The chapters also incorporate extensive industry experience and examples to investigate the effects of different regulatory practices on the gaming industry, industry stakeholders, and the public.

With almost 200 pages of new content, this second edition adds a new chapter on Casino Organization and Operations and updates and expands many of the other chapters.

Contents

Editors’ Note
1 The Debate Over Legal Casino Gambling
2 Public Policy and Policy Goals
3 Public Policy Implementation and Regulatory Practice
4 Structuring a Casino Industry
5 Casino Organization and Operations
6 The Economics of Gambling Regulation
7 Regulatory Agency Organization
8 Protecting The Process
9 Compliance
10 Bank Secrecy Act Requirements
11 Addressing Problem Gambling
12 Regulating Electronic/Computer Games and Equipment
13 Auditing and Accounting of Casino Revenues
14 A Normative Analysis of Gambling Tax Policy
15 Crimes and Advantage Play
16 Licensing
17 Investigation of Industry Participants
18 Exclusions

The book also features an index and contributor biographies.

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Editors: Anthony Cabot and Ngai Pindell
Title: Regulating Land-Based Casinos: Policies, Procedures, and Economics, Second Edition.
Publisher: UNLV Gaming Press
Date of Publication: 2018
Pages: 824
ISBN (paperback edition) 978-1-939546-10-4
Library of Congress call number: K 3704 .R43 2018