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We demonstrate how to use financial instruments to produce recommendation mechanisms. We describe how futures and futures options, both relating to the perception of a company or service, can be used to derive accurate recommendations that are secure against abuse. We suggest the notion of economic reductions to attribute a cost to the introduction of bias in the recommendation system. We demonstrate the use of such an approach using a simplified set of assumptions on the behavior of the market.
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Jakobsson, M. (2003). Financial Instruments in Recommendation Mechanisms. In: Blaze, M. (eds) Financial Cryptography. FC 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2357. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36504-4_3
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