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Experimental Research in Financial Reporting: From the Laboratory to the Virtual World

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  • Bloomfield, Robert
  • Rennekamp, Kristina

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Virtual worlds can allow experimental researchers to create and examine settings with far more institutional complexity than is possible in a traditional laboratory setting. This document discusses how studies with greater complexity can complement more traditional experimental methods for those who are studying financial reporting; explores both the opportunities and challenges virtual worlds present to experimentalists; presents some examples of how to implement complex institutions; and discusses how the costs and benefits of the virtual-world laboratory vary across different experimental traditions.

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  • Bloomfield, Robert & Rennekamp, Kristina, 2009. "Experimental Research in Financial Reporting: From the Laboratory to the Virtual World," Foundations and Trends(R) in Accounting, now publishers, vol. 3(1), pages 1-85, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:now:fntacc:1400000012
    DOI: 10.1561/1400000012
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    1. Kristina Rennekamp, 2012. "Processing Fluency and Investors’ Reactions to Disclosure Readability," Journal of Accounting Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 50(5), pages 1319-1354, December.
    2. Stephen Atlas & Louis Putterman, 2011. "Trust among the Avatars: A Virtual World Experiment, with and without Textual and Visual Cues," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 78(1), pages 63-86, July.

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