User:Mefk81/ResearchDescription

Project Summary
This page describes the research project undertaken by the project partners at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino (Italy), the Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim (Germany) and Hong Kong University of Science and Techonology (Hong Kong).

The main goal of our research is to study the effect on the availability (or absence) of information on Wikipedia on real world outcomes. The design is based on adding information on randomly selected places from "information richer" versions of the article (e.g. English) to "information poorer" versions of the articles (e.g. in other languages). Our goal is to make only edits that improve the selected pages and reduce the language difference in the available information.

Methodology
The present study combines (i) a retrospective analysis of how the addition information about touristic sites was related to tourist visists and (ii) a randomized improvement of Wikipedia articles about some touristic sites and tracking the impact of the improved information on tourist visits.

Dissemination
The early version of this research will be discussed at internal seminars at Centre for European Economic Research, University of Mannheim, Collegio Carlo Alberto and Hong-Kong University of Science and Technology. The more advanced research shall be presented in a workshop that will be organized in 2015 by our institutions and in a number of international conferences.

Researchers
We are young economists, who are interested in conducting research on the Economic Crisis and Tourism. This research is being conducted in the wider framework of a project on public goods contribution during crises. (http://seek.zew.eu/en/seek/projects/ict-research-group/projekte-2014/side-effects-of-economic-crises-in-europe-and-provision-of-online-public-goods.html ). The participating researchers are:

Marit Hinnosaar Ph.D. http://www.carloalberto.org/people/faculty/resident/marit-hinnosaar/

Toomas Hinnosaar Ph.D. http://www.carloalberto.org/people/faculty/resident/hinnosaar/

Olga Slivkó Ph.D. http://www.zew.de/en/mitarbeiter/mitarbeiter.php3?action=mita&kurz=OSL

Michael Kummer Ph.D. http://www.zew.de/en/mitarbeiter/mitarbeiter.php3?action=mita&kurz=MKM

Michael Zhang Ph.D. http://mikezhang.com/