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A Model of Russia's "Virtual Economy" [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Economic Design, 2000
The Russian Economy has evolved into a hybrid form, a partially monetized quasi-market system that has been called the virtual economy. In the virtual economy, barter and non-monetary transactions play a key role in transferring value from the ...
Ericson, Richard E., Ickes, Barry W.
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Evolutionary game analysis of online game studios and online game companies participating in the virtual economy of online games. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE
In the context of the new economic development in the post-pandemic era, "play" labor as an important component of digital work has become an inexhaustible driving force for the growth of the digital economy. Previous research has shown that "play" labor,
Gong Zhang, Shulei Bi
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Artificial intelligence for algorithmic trading digital assets: evidence from the Counter-Strike 2 skin market [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence
IntroductionThe Counter-Strike 2 skin market has developed into a multi-billion-dollar digital asset ecosystem, characterized by high volatility, low liquidity, and pricing inefficiencies that differ substantially from traditional financial markets ...
Federico Guede-Fernández   +12 more
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Defining the Metaverse: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
The term Metaverse is emerging as a result of the late push by multinational technology conglomerates and a recent surge of interest in Web 3.0, Blockchain, NFT, and Cryptocurrencies.
Georg David Ritterbusch   +1 more
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DVIT—A Decentralized Virtual Items Trading Forum with Reputation System

open access: yesMathematics, 2023
The metaverse provides us with an attractive virtual space in which the value of the virtual property has been increasingly recognized. However, the lack of effective cross-metaverse trading tools and the reputation guarantee makes it difficult to trade ...
Zuobin Ying   +4 more
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Information as a Factor Regulating and Deregulating Markets. A Case Study of the Dot.Com Crisis, the Lehman Brothers Crisis and the Sars-Cov2 Pandemic

open access: yesStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2022
Present, as Manuel Castells (1996) notes, we live in the information age. Knowledge and the way it is acquired and processed are the driving forces of the economy, and information processing systems are the strength of economies.
Kinal Jarosław, Kinal Mariola
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Entrepreneurship in Virtual Economy: the Case of Currency One SA [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Management and Business Administration, Central Europe, 2017
Purpose: The scientifc purpose of the study is an attempted synthesis of interpretation of “the virtual economy” and “the virtual environment” in the Polish and foreign literature on the subject. The cognitive purpose thereof is to offer an identifcation
Ewa Badzińska   +1 more
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Tokenized Markets Using Blockchain Technology: Exploring Recent Developments and Opportunities

open access: yesInformation, 2023
The popularity of blockchain technology stems largely from its association with cryptocurrencies, but its potential applications extend beyond this. Fungible tokens, which are interchangeable, can facilitate value transactions, while smart contracts ...
Angel A. Juan   +5 more
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The Vanishing Barter Economy in Russia: A Test of the Virtual Economy Hypothesis? Reply to Barry Ickes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper is a reply to Barry Ickes' critique of my paper “Trust versus Illusion: What is Driving Demonetization in Russia?†in which I show that the data reject Barry Ickes' Virtual Economy explanation of barter in Russia in favor of an ...
Marin, Dalia
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Virtual reality as a way to good business [PDF]

open access: yesTrendovi u Poslovanju, 2016
A virtual economy is the emergent property of the interaction between participants in a virtual world. As businesses compete in the real world, they also compete in virtual worlds. Many companies now incorporate virtual world as a new form of advertising.
Mošorinski Predrag
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