Research

Gaming & Esports Summit

Economics & Business Conference
Oct. 10/11, 2024


Call for Papers

The conference will take place at ESCP in Berlin.

The conference will provide a platform for exchanging innovative thoughts and creating cooperation between researchers in the fields of business & economics related to gaming and esports.

  • We are inviting proposals for paper presentations as well as complete sessions consisting out of three papers/presenters.

  • This conference provides researchers with an opportunity to present theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented research on:
    • Music in games
    • Games and health care
    • Serious games and gamification
    • Soft skills education
    • Sports analytics
    • Tournament design
    • Virtual economies
    • Intellectual Property and Copyright Issues
    • Marketing and Intelligent Advertisement
    • Business, Economy, and Entrepreneurship
    • Social and Ethical Issues 
    • Games and human behaviour
    • Investment activity in the digital media and video game industry
    • Loot boxes, dark patterns and truth in advertising
    • Free-to-Play: Mobile Video Games, Bias, and Norms
    • Real Games: What’s Legitimate and What’s Not in Contemporary Video Games
    • The ecosystem of esports
    • The dark side of gaming & esports
    • Sports, Esports, and gaming: Definitions and deliminations
    • Esports in Europe, Asia, and the US
    • Free to play versus premium
    • In-game shops
    • Doping: Legalise it?
    • Governance in esports
    • Major events
    • International esports policy
    • Betting market efficiency and anomalies
    • Forecasting match & league outcomes
    • Uncertainty in match and league outcome: Does it matter?
    • Changes of the rules of the game and its impact on the attractiveness of the sport
    • Demand for tickets
    • Demand for talents: esports and the labour market
    • Game publisher
    • Market entry strategies
    • Riot, Valve, Blizzard, LoL, CSGO, Dota2, R6, Fortnite, PUBG, Starcraft, Warcraft

Organising Committee 2024

Prof. Dr Georg Stadtmann

European University Viadrina

Gonçalo Pina

ESCP Business School

 

Programme Committee

Prof. Dr Dennis Coates

UMBC

Prof. Dr Jens Junge

Institute for Ludology – SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences

Prof. Dr. Sonja Klose 

HWR Berlin

Dr Peter Kreutter

WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

Dr Timo Schöber

European University Viadrina and lvlup!HR

Manouchehr Shamsrizi

Humboldt University – gamelab.berlin

  • For submission, please send your full paper or an extended abstract (cover page + 2 pages executive summary) as a PDF or Word document to videogaming@europa-uni.de
  • Only electronic submissions will be considered.
  • Submission deadline: June 30th, 2024.
  • All presenters will receive a final decision by July 15th, 2024.

Conference fee
  • The conference fee has to be paid within two weeks after acceptance of the paper to qualify for the early bird rate (200 €). The normal rate for a payment within one month after acceptance is 250 €, the fee for a late registration is 300 €.
  • Payments can be made by bank transfer. Details will follow.
  • An early registration and payment facilitate the organisation of the conference as well as the planning process tremendously.
  • The final payment deadline is Aug. 15th, 2024.
  • Refund policy: See FAQs.

Attending the conference without paper presentation
  • Everybody is invited to attend the conference without presenting a paper. The fee for a non-presenter is 150€.
  • Please send an email to videogaming@europa-uni.de until end of July 2024 in order to register as a non-presenter.

 

Final programme
  • The final programme will be available in the end of August 2024. 

 

Refund
  • Cancellation and request for a refund earlier than 90 days prior to the conference: The refund is 60% of the registration fee. Cancellation and request for a refund between 90 and 60 days prior to the conference: The refund is 40% of the registration fee.
  • Cancellation and request for a refund less than 60 days prior to the conference: No refund.
  • No exception for registrants unable to obtain a travel visa. Obtaining a travel visa is the responsibility of the registrant. We will assist by providing an invitation letter for paid registrants, but we are not an authority on visa issues. We cannot help with speeding up the visa process. No exception will be made to the cancellation/refund policy for registrants due to travel related issues or natural disasters, etc.

Viadrina founders meet @ Kelso Institute Europe

Prof Dr Georg Stadtmann

Professor of Macroeconomics

Office hours

Wednesday from 1 - 2 pm

Please contact Prof Dr Georg Stadtmann in advance via e-mail.