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Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Jan 2002

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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On Virtual Economies

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 14 Oct 2002

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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The Price of 'Man' and 'Woman': A Hedonic Pricing Model of Avatar Attributes in a Synthethic World

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 17 Jun 2003

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Theory of the Avatar

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 06 Mar 2003

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Dragon Kill Points: A Summary Whitepaper

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 24 Jan 2007

Edward Castronova and Joshua Fairfield

Indiana University and Washington and Lee University - School of Law

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The Right to Play

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Jun 2005

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Real Products in Imaginary Worlds

Harvard Business Review, pp. 20-22, May 2005

Number of pages: 2 Posted: 26 Jul 2005

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2355

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Jul 2008

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Real-Money Trade in the Products of Synthetic Economies

Info, Vol. 8, No. 6, October 2006

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 17 Jul 2006

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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On the Research Value of Large Games: Natural Experiments in Norrath and Camelot

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1621

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 13 Jan 2006

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Game Development and Social Science

Journal of Game Development, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 91-94, March 2004

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 26 Jul 2005

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Synthetic Economies and the Social Question

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 18 Aug 2005

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Surveying the Virtual World: A Large Scale Survey in Second Life Using the Virtual Data Collection Interface (VDCI)

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Surveying the Virtual World: A Large Scale Survey in Second Life Using the Virtual Data Collection Interface (VDCI)

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 05 Aug 2009

Mark W. Bell, Edward Castronova and Gert G. Wagner

Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

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Surveying the Virtual World - A Large Scale Survey in Second Life Using the Virtual Data Collection Interface (VDCI)

German Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD) Research Notes No. 40

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 30 Sep 2009

Mark W. Bell, Edward Castronova and Gert G. Wagner

Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

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Virtual Assisted Self Interviewing (VASI): An Expansion of Survey Data Collection Methods to Virtual Worlds by Means of VDCI

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Virtual Assisted Self Interviewing (VASI): An Expansion of Survey Data Collection Methods to Virtual Worlds by Means of VDCI

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 31 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2015

Mark W. Bell, Edward Castronova and Gert G. Wagner

Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

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Virtual Assisted Self Interviewing (VASI): An Expansion of Survey Data Collection Methods to the Virtual Worlds by Means of VDCI

German Council for Social and Economic Data (RatSWD) Research Notes No. 39

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Sep 2009

Mark W. Bell, Edward Castronova and Gert G. Wagner

Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

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The Renaissance of Natural Law: Tolkien, Fantasy, and Video Games

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 Feb 2020

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Players for Hire: Games and the Future of Low-Skill Work

Gamasutra, October 11, 2016

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 13 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2017

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Virtual Worlds as Petri Dishes for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 Dec 2008

Edward Castronova and Matthew Falk

Indiana University and Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Telecommunications

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A Model of Climate Policy Using Board Game Mechanics

International Journal of Serious Games, Vol. 2(3), 2015

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 13 Nov 2017

Edward Castronova and Isaac T. Knowles

Indiana University and Indiana University Dept. of Telecommunications

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Economics of Digital Media Firms: Models and Perspectives

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Economics of Digital Media Firms: Models and Perspectives

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Aug 2023

Edward Castronova and Christopher Kaczmarczyk-Smith

Indiana University and Purdue University

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Economics of Digital Media Firms: Models and Perspectives

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Oct 2023

Edward Castronova and Christopher Kaczmarczyk-Smith

Indiana University and Purdue University

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Religious Impulse in Video Games: Implications for World-Building

In Mark J.P. Wolf (ed.) Revisiting Imaginary Worlds: A Subcreation Studies Anthology, Routledge 2017, pp. 116-126; ISBN: 9781138942059

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 04 Feb 2020

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Virtual Worlds as Petri Dishes for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

RatSWD Working Paper No. 47

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 11 Aug 2009

Edward Castronova and Matthew Falk

Indiana University and RatSWD

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Digital Value Transfer Systems

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 71, No. 2, 2014

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 13 Nov 2017

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Results of a Massive Experiment on Virtual Currency Endowments and Money Demand

Zˇivić N, Andjelković I, O¨zden T, Dekić M, Castronova E (2017) Results of a Massive Experiment on Virtual Currency Endowments and Money Demand. PLoS ONE 12(10): e0186407. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186407

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 13 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2017

Nenad Zivic, Igor Andjelkovic, Tolga Ozden, Milovan Dekic and Edward Castronova

Nordeus, Nordeus, University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Students, Nordeus and Indiana University

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On Money and Magic

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research vol. 2(4), February 2010

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 13 Nov 2017

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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The Challenge of VR to the Liberal Democratic Order

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 14 Nov 2017

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Imaginary Worlds as Social Experiments

Forthcoming in Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds, ed. Mark J. P. Wolf, Routledge 2017

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 21 Nov 2017

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Sports Rules as Common Pool Resources: A Better Way to Respond to Doping

Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 39 No. 3, December 2009

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 13 Nov 2017

Edward Castronova and Gert G. Wagner

Indiana University and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

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Politics, Altruism, and the Definition of Poverty

Edward J. Bird (1999) Politics, altruism, and the definition of poverty, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 1:3, 269-291, DOI: 10.1080/13876989908412628

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 Aug 2014

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Build What You Dream: Imaginary Worlds, Technology, and the Practice of Philosophy

Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds, ed. Mark J. P. Wolf, Routledge 2017, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 21 Nov 2017

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Achievement Bias in the Evolution of Preferences

Journal of Bioeconomics 6: 195–226, 2004

Posted: 11 Jan 2018

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Social Norms and Sexual Activity in U.S. High Schools

Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 39, No. 4, 2004

Posted: 11 Jan 2018

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Virtual Worlds: Petri Dishes, Rat Mazes, and Supercolliders

Games and Culture 4(4) 396-407, 2009

Posted: 14 Nov 2017

Edward Castronova and Matthew Falk

Indiana University and Indiana University Bloomington - Department of Telecommunications

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Fertility and Virtual Reality

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 66, No. 3, 2009

Posted: 14 Nov 2017

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Policy Questions Raised by Virtual Economies

Telecommunications Policy, Volume 39, Issue 9, Pages 745-810 (October 2015)

Posted: 14 Nov 2017

Edward Castronova, Isaac T. Knowles and Travis L Ross

Indiana University, Indiana University Dept. of Telecommunications and University of Louisville

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As Real as Real? Macroeconomic Behavior in a Large-Scale Virtual World

New Media & Society Vol 11(5): 685–707, 2009

Posted: 14 Nov 2017

Edward Castronova, Dmitri Williams, Cuihua Shen, Rabindra Ratan, Li Xiong, Yun Huang and Brian Keegan

Indiana University, University of Southern California - Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of California, Davis, Michigan State University, Emory University - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Northwestern University and University of Colorado Boulder

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Inequality and Income: The Mediating Effects of Social Spending and Risk

Posted: 10 Jul 2001

Edward Castronova

Indiana University

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Indiana University

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