Working Paper

What Makes Players Pay? An Empirical Investigation of In-Game Lotteries

Tomomichi Amano and Andrey Simonov

Mar 21, 2025

Models a unique dataset from an online game to structurally estimate and compare the tastes for gameplay complementarity of “loot boxes” of regular and high-spending players with implications for potential regulations.

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