@techreport{MoritzSchoeberStadtmann2020, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Moritz, Karl-Heinz and Sch{\"o}ber, Timo and Stadtmann, Georg}, title = {Product differentiation in video games: a closer look at Fortnite's success}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-698}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-6984}, pages = {21}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Fortnite is the most successful video game in terms of revenues generated. Since it belongs to the 'free-to-play games', the company has to optimize the in-game-shop to generate revenues. Product differentiation is one possibility to optimize the profitability of the game. In this paper, we use a microeconomic approach in order to highlight the implications of product differentiation for the profit maximization problem.}, language = {en} } @techreport{SchoeberStadtmannParshakov2021, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Sch{\"o}ber, Timo and Stadtmann, Georg and Parshakov, Petr}, title = {Survival of professional CS:GO teams: What matters? A Research Note}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-1223}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-12231}, pages = {11}, year = {2021}, abstract = {We analyse Esport data of professional CS:GO teams to shed light on the question of whether diverse teams survive longer. We also control for the prize money as a time dependent covariate. Another focus is on the liability of newness hypothesis.}, language = {en} } @techreport{PierdziochSchoeberStadtmann2021, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Pierdzioch, Christian and Sch{\"o}ber, Timo and Stadtmann, Georg}, title = {Law of one price: BigMac versus Fortnite - A note}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-854}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-8540}, pages = {11}, year = {2021}, abstract = {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 that it does not hold for the BigMac data.}, language = {en} }