Virtual Economy Research Network

I'm really pleasure to have discovered virtual-economy.org !

I'm working for spread knowledge about all mmo and the virtual economics system in Italy with my site http://virtualeco.altervista.org/. My last objective is to write an economics degree thesis about these topics.

i'm going to add your site to my link!

thanks
Fabrizio @ VirtualEco

Hi Fabrizio, welcome to VERN and do check out the mailing list too. One of these days I need to find the time to get this link section up. Your site looks interesting but unfortunately I don't read Italian :-)

Here is a very good list of reallife companys they stay in second life:

http://slinside.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=83

The adventures of Joe in Second Life with regular updates of the research undertaken in the area by the ebusiness@newcastle team.

http://www.ebusiness-newcastle.com/blog

gamegoldguru.com is a forum site for users discussing various aspects of the virtual economy relating to MMO games. For your research, you may review current topics and read various opinions.

The most comprehensive site for MMO virtual good price comparison and vendor reviews -
www.spymmo.com

this is the bloomberg on virtual currencies.

GamerMarket.com -Alternative to eBay in virtual currency auction

mmobux.com - Offers a price comparison for more than 20 MMORPG currencies, shop profiles including reviews and interviews and a discussion forum for currency sellers and buyers.

MMOOM.net gives buyers a comparaison between different offers of the virtual currencies that exist on the internet. MMOOM was started on december 2007 and it is provided in its beta version. MMOOM also offers a reputation system that allows buyers to give their opinion about your website.

i m pleased to find this web. and I am from China, making a job in internet company, in charge of sales management for games and other internet valueadded services, including direct or indirect means sales channel of game points, such as Q coins

GameRates.com

Provides virtual game currency vendor reviews, price comparison, charts, and news covering the RMT market.

Great place to look for historical trends in price data.