Incentive Networks

Authors: Yuezhou Lv, Thomas Moscibroda

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Research Type Theoretical In this work, we study an alternative approach Incentive Networks in which a participant s reward depends not only on his own contribution; but also in part on the contributions made by his social contacts or friends. We show that the key parameter effecting the efficiency of such an Incentive Network-based economic system depends on the participant s degree of directed altruism. Specifically, we characterize the condition under which an Incentive Network-based economy is more efficient than the basic pay-for-your-contribution economy. We quantify by how much incentive networks can reduce the total reward that needs to be paid to the participants in order to achieve a certain overall contribution. Finally, we study the impact of the network topology and various exogenous parameters on the efficiency of incentive networks.
Researcher Affiliation Collaboration Yuezhou Lv Tsinghua University Beijing, China lvyz11@tsinghua.edu.cn Thomas Moscibroda Microsoft Research & Tsinghua University Beijing, China moscitho@microsoft.com
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