ABOUT THE AUTHORS Tom Coryn Tom Coryn studied at the University of Leuven (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) and the University of Toulouse (Université des Sciences Sociales, France). He holds a master degree in Economics and Criminology. He worked as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law (Criminology Department) in Leuven where he did research on organised crime. In Tilburg (Tilburg University) he was a member of the Research Group Police and Gambling (Faculty of Law). His fields of interests related to gambling are the costs and benefits of casinos and gambling venues, gambling related crime and governmental gambling policies. Yuliya Crane Yuliya Crane received her doctorate in 2007 from the University of Salford. She specialised in the field of economics of gambling industry. Her thesis considered supercasinos, their place within the UK gambling market and cost- benefit analysis of their effects on the society as a whole. Prior to undertaking her PhD in Economics, Crane completed a degree in Business Management at Tavricheskaya National Academy in Ukraine and a degree in Business Economics at the University of Salford. While completing her doctorate, Crane worked as a part-time lecturer in Economics and Business Studies as well as for the Centre for the Study of Gam- bling on a number of consultancy projects, most notably, the 2006 study into the different segments of the gambling industry within 25 EU member states. She has now embarked on a career in aviation consultancy as a director for CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States, former USSR) region. She currently lives in Manchester, England, with her husband. Coryn, Fijnaut & Littler (eds), Economic Aspects of Gambling Regulation: EU and US Perspectives, 197–200 ©2008 Koninklijke Brill NV. ISBN 978 90 04 16559 5. Printed in the Netherlands. Economic Aspects of Gambling Regulation: EU and US Perspectives Eric van Damme Eric van Damme is professor of Economics at CentER, Tilburg University and Co-Director of the Tilburg Law and Economics Center TILEC. In 1983 he obtained his PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology for the thesis Refinements of the Nash Equilibrium Concept, written under the supervision of professor Reinhard Selten and Professor Jaap Wessels. After having taught at Delft, Northwestern and Bonn, Eric moved to Tilburg in 1989, where he has been since then. He has published widely on various issues in game theory and its applications, including competition law and regulation. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, honorary fellow of the European Economic Association and Secretary and Treasurer of the Game Theory Society. He is also a member of the appeals committee of the Dutch competition authority NMa, and a member of the Supervisory Board of HIIL, the Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law. William Eadington William R. Eadington is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, and holds the Philip G. Satre Chair in Gaming Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is an interna- tionally recognized authority on the legalization and regulation of commercial gambling, and has written extensively on issues relating to the economic and social impacts of commercial gaming. Eadington has been with the University of Nevada, Reno since 1969. He has twice served as an Academic Visitor to the London School of Economics. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at the Center for Addiction Studies, Harvard Medical School, and as a Visiting Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Eadington has edited or co-edited a number of books, including Optimal Play: Mathematical Studies of Games and Gambling (2007), The Downside (2003), Finding the Edge (2000), The Business Of Gaming (1999), and Gambling: Public Policies and the Social Sciences, (1997). He was also a primary contributor to the recent European Commission report, Study of Gambling Services in the Internal Market of the European Union (2006.) David Forrest David Forrest is an economist who received his doctoral training at the University of Western Ontario. He is currently Professor of Economics, and a member of the Centre for the Study of Gambling, in the University of Salford, UK. He has published extensively, in journals such as Economic Inquiry and National Tax Journal, on the economics of lottery and betting markets and has co-authored 198.