Virtual economy: As real as real

Our first paper on the economics of EQII is now out in the current issue of the journal New Media & Society. There's a link to the paper on my research page.

We think the paper is notable because it is the first instance (as far as we know) of published, peer-reviewed, basic economic tests using actual large-scale data from a virtual world. No estimates, no samples, no bootstrapping--just all of th...