Design recent research findings on the benefits of video game play; majority of the general Sri Lankan society perceives video gaming have negative influence on the players. The present study seeks to examine the factors influencing the playing of video games among people in Sri Lanka thereby...

Traditional marketing communication techniques are diminishing effectiveness and marketers have developed creative applications to attract consumers. The contemporary multi-platform environment, connecting many different devices, became a privileged ambient for advertising and marketing...

Uniswap — and other constant product markets — appear to work well in practice despite their simplicity. In this paper, we give a simple formal analysis of constant product markets and their generalizations, showing that, under some common conditions, these markets must closely track the...

Video game developers and journalists on both sides of the Pacific agree that the preferences of Japanese and American video gamers are quite different. Their consensus is that Americans prefer a relatively higher level of control in most aspects of their video games, compared to the Japanese....

In many respects, the commercial and social interactions within virtual worlds are essentially the same as those interactions conducted face-to-face or over less engrossing technologies, however, the immersive nature of the virtual world redefines the nature of the experience. Because virtual...

Has our growing intimacy with digital technology thrust us into a modern version of Plato's Cave where, Socrates tells us, prisoners mistook shadows on a wall for for reality? We, of course, are not in chains, and the technology of Socrates' cave with its statues and firelight is primitive...

Video game consoles that enable gamers to use active body movements are becoming increasingly popular. Yet, little is known about the influence of movement on how gamers experience such games. This study takes an exploratory approach, using different data collection methods. A theory about the...

Complex and uniquely human spontaneous orders are central to the Austrian understanding of the market process and price system. Yet, these spontaneous orders are often difficult to study with traditional empirical methods. Since virtual worlds serve as extensions of our own world, video games...

This study addresses the important and recurring question of whether playing video games is detrimental to the socio-economic development of a person. It does this by using novel data from the Taking Part Survey in England to establish whether games playing is associated with particular...

We propose a parsimonious matching model where people's choice of whom to meet endogenizes the degree of randomness in matching. The analysis highlights the interaction between a productive motive, driven by the surplus attainable in a match, and a strategic motive, driven by reciprocity of...