Showing 1 - 10 of 20
Fortnite is the most successful video game in terms of revenues generated. Since it belongs to the 'free-to-play games …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224939
is known, in contrast, about the amount of discrimination in the virtual world of online gaming. In an early study …-examine the pricing of avatars sold in the Fortnite game. We cannot reject the null hypothesis that female and male avatars are … sold at the same prices. We also account for the impact of a Fortnite sex scandal on the price differential between female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012284785
We analyse the business model pattern behind the success of the Fortnite game. A theoretical model is used to examine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012160894
up at home, bored, stressed, and anguished, gave gaming and eSports companies growing prominence throughout the first … consequences. At the start of the outbreak, the financial markets collapsed, although not all sectors suffered equally. The gaming … and eSports industry is one of those that has suffered the least from the fall in the markets. Millions of people locked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266779
We analyze the law of one price (LoP) based on BigMac and Fortnite prices. We find a positive but less than perfect … correlation between the over-/undervaluations of the two indices. While we cannot reject the LoP for the Fortnite data, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422765
We analyze the law of one price (LoP) based on BigMac and Fortnite prices. We find a positive but less than a perfect … correlation between the over-/undervaluations of the two indices. While LoP holds for the Fortnite data, it does not hold for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012160895
To align employees’ interests with the firm’s goals, employers often use performance-based pay, but designing such a compensation plan is challenging because performance is typically multifaceted. For example, a sales employee should be incentivized to sell the company’s product, but a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662680
; cherry picking; gaming). However, different expedients are devised in the program to minimize these shortcomings. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104228
Gaming has the potential to support the development of young people's capabilities in social responsibility (SR) and …, at the same time, represents a threat of developing undesired behaviour patterns. Successful integration of gaming in the … gaming's effects and social behaviour, the literature is analysed. To assess the state-of-the art of young people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012117615
Consider an agent who can costlessly add mean-preserving noise to his output. To deter such risk-taking, the principal optimally offers a contract that makes the agent's utility concave in output. If the agent is risk-neutral and protected by limited liability, this concavity constraint binds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013189027