TY - RPRT A1 - Stadtmann, Georg A1 - Tosun, Aynur Dilan A1 - Pierdzioch, Christian T1 - Are female skins sold for a lower price? Evidence from the Fortnite game N2 - Much significant research has been done to shed light on discrimination of females in, for example, labor markets. Less is known, in contrast, about the amount of discrimination in the virtual world of online gaming. In an early study, Castronova (2004) finds that female avatars receive about 10\% lower prices in online auctions. In this research note, we re-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 and male avatars. T3 - Discussion papers of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics - 420 KW - gender discrimination KW - market segmentation KW - gaming KW - Freemium KW - product differentiation Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7738 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Pierdzioch, Christian A1 - Schöber, Timo A1 - Stadtmann, Georg T1 - Law of one price: BigMac versus Fortnite – A note N2 - 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. N2 - Wir analysieren das Gesetz des einheitlichen Preises (LoP) anhand von BigMac- und Fortnite-Preisen. Wir finden eine positive, aber weniger als perfekte Korrelation zwischen den Über-/Unterbewertungen der beiden Indizes. Während wir das LoP für die Fortnite-Daten nicht zurückweisen können, finden wir, dass es für die BigMac-Daten nicht gilt. T3 - Discussion papers of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics - 421 KW - Fortnite KW - BigMac KW - law of one price Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-8540 ER -