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Are female skins sold for a lower price? : evidence from the Fortnite game
Stadtmann, Georg; Tosun, Aynur Dilan; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2020
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 …
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Product differentiation in video games : a closer look at Fortnite's success
Moritz, Karl-Heinz; Schöber, Timo; Stadtmann, Georg - 2020
Fortnite is the most successful video game in terms of revenues generated. Since it belongs to the 'free-to-play games …
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Are female skins sold at a lower price? : evidence from the Fortnite game
Stadtmann, Georg; Tosun, Aynur Dilan; Pierdzioch, Christian - In: Applied economics letters 30 (2023) 16, pp. 2282-2287
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Product differentiation in video games: A closer look at Fortnite's success
Moritz, Karl-Heinz; Schöber, Timo; Stadtmann, Georg - 2020
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
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Price promotions in "freemium" settings
Runge, Julian; Nair, Harikesh; Levav, Jonathan - 2019 - This draft: March 18, 2019
The “freemium” model for digital goods involves selling a base version of the product for free, and making premium … convert free users to paying ones. Price promotions (or “sales”) are often used in freemium to induce the conversion. However … periods with low prices, or use them as signals of low product quality. These long-run concerns may be accentuated in freemium …
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Delegating pricing power to customers : pay what you want or name your own price?
Krämer, Marius-Florentin; Schmidt, Klaus M.; Spann, Martin - 2015
Pay What You Want (PWYW) and Name Your Own Price (NYOP) are customerdriven pricing mechanisms that give customers (some) pricing power. Both have been used in service industries with high fixed capacity costs in order to appeal to additional customers by reducing prices without setting a...
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Market Segmentation : The Role of Opaque Travel Agencies
Shapiro, Dmitry A. - 2008
This paper investigates the role of discount travel agencies such as Priceline and Hotwire in the market segmentation of the hotel and airline industries. The distinct feature of these agencies is that they conceal important characteristics of the offered services, such as hotel locations or...
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Delegating Pricing Power to Customers : Pay What You Want or Name Your Own Price?
Krämer, Florentin - 2017
Pay What You Want (PWYW) and Name Your Own Price (NYOP) are customer-driven pricing mechanisms that give customers (some) pricing power. Both have been used in service industries with high fixed costs to price discriminate without setting a reference price. Their participatory and innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971780
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Delegating pricing power to customers : pay what you want or name your own price?
Krämer, Marius-Florentin; Schmidt, Klaus M.; Spann, Martin - 2017
Pay What You Want (PWYW) and Name Your Own Price (NYOP) are customer driven pricing mechanisms that give customers (some) pricing power. Both have been used in service industries with high fixed costs to price discriminate without setting a reference price. Their participatory and innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591510
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To Hinder or to Facilitate : Retailers' Strategy of Consumer Information Sharing and Target Segment
Ma, Buqing; Li, Guang; Kong, Guangwen - 2021
Motivated by the phenomenon that some retailers with high-end brand images, such as Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, prefer to hinder consumers from sharing information through online reviews, we study an online retailer's strategy of hindering or facilitating consumer information sharing in...
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