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Concepts and methods

A Test of the Law of Demand in a Virtual World: Exploring the Petri Dish Approach to Social Science

Author(s): 
Castronova, Edward
Year: 
2008
Publication information: 
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2355
URL: 
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1173642

Macroeconomic Indicators in a Virtual Economy

Author(s): 
Lehtiniemi, Tuukka
Year: 
2008
Publication information: 
Master's thesis, University of Helsinki, 17 March 2008.
URL: 
https://oa.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/37870/macroeco.pdf

Virtual worlds don't exist

Author(s): 
Lehdonvirta, Vili
Year: 
2008
Publication information: 
Working paper

The unbound network of product and service interaction of the MMOG industry: with a case study of China

Author(s): 
Ström, Patrik and Ernkvist, Mirko
Year: 
2007
Publication information: 
Proceedings of DiGRA 2007: Situated Play. Tokyo: The University of Tokyo, September, 2007. Pp. 639-649.
URL: 
http://www.digra.org/dl/db/07312.12427.pdf

Virtual world experimentation: An exploratory study

Author(s): 
Chesney, Thomas; Chuah, Swee-Hoon; Hoffman, Robert
Year: 
2007
Publication information: 
Nottingham University Business School, Industrial Economics Division, Occasional papers 2007-21
URL: 
http://ideas.repec.org/p/nub/occpap/21.html

Rivalrous Consumption and the Boundaries of Copyright Law: Intellectual Property Lessons from Online Games

Author(s): 
Schwarz, Andrew D. and Bullis, Robert
Year: 
2005
Publication information: 
Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, 2005
URL: 
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=927475

Real Products in Imaginary Worlds

Author(s): 
Castronova, Edward
Year: 
2005
Publication information: 
Harvard Business Review, pp. 20-22, May 2005
URL: 
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=759924

Virtual Economics: Applying Economics to the Study of Game Worlds

Author(s): 
Lehdonvirta, Vili
Year: 
2005
Publication information: 
Proceedings of Future Play, Michigan State University, 13-15 October.

Virtual Economies: An In-Depth Look at the Virtual World of Final Fantasy XI: Online

Author(s): 
Nash, Justin and Schneyer, Evan
Year: 
2004
Publication information: 
Unpublished manuscript
URL: 
http://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu/hunterd/VirtualEconomies.pdf

Virtual Worlds, Real Rules

Author(s): 
Bradley, Caroline, and Froomkin, A. Michael
Year: 
2003
Publication information: 
TPRC Conference Paper (31 August 2003).
URL: 
http://web.si.umich.edu/tprc/archive-search-abstract.cfm?PaperID=240