Title
Reputation markets
Abstract
A reputation system should incentivize users to obtain and reveal estimates of content quality. It should also aggre- gate these estimates to establish content reputation in a way that counters strategic manipulation. Mechanisms have been proposed in recent literature that oer financial in- centives to induce these desirable outcomes. In this paper, to systematically study what we believe to be fundamental characteristics of these mechanisms, we view them as in- formation markets designed to assess content quality, and refer to them as reputation markets. Specifically, we de- velop a rational expectations equilibrium model to study how incentives created by reputation markets should influ- ence community behavior and the accuracy of assessments. Our analysis suggests that reputation markets oer a num- ber of desirable features:
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1403027.1403045
ACM SIGCOMM Conference
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
content reputation,desirable feature,information market,content quality,counters strategic manipulation,reputation system,strategic manipulation,rational expectations equilibrium,online ratings,reputation distortion incurs,reputation market,reputation assessment,information acquisition decrease
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiang Yan16617.39
Benjamin Van Roy21762211.73