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Challenges and Opportunities in Economics Experiments in Virtual Worlds
Author(s) -
Haruvy Ernan
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
southern economic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.762
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 2325-8012
pISSN - 0038-4038
DOI - 10.4284/0038-4038-78.1.1
Subject(s) - metaverse , data science , management science , computer science , virtual world , economics , virtual reality , human–computer interaction
Economics research in virtual worlds presents opportunities that go far beyond what is possible in the laboratory but also presents new challenges and perils. The purpose of this article is to introduce the works in this special issue, each of which addresses different aspects of virtual world research in terms of new opportunities and insights as well as new sets of concerns.