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Is competition for donations between development NGOs good for welfare? We address this question in a monopolistic … competition model à la Salop (1979). NGOs - defined by the non-distribution constraint - compete for donations from donors by … exerting fundraising effort. If the market size is fixed, the free-entry equilibrium number of NGOs is usually larger than the …
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The Paper analyses (i) if globalization is undemocratic, (ii) if NGOs can fill a gap in representation and …
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This paper studies the stability of coordination between mission-driven non-governmental organizations (NGOs) competing … for donations. We build a non-cooperative game-theoretic model of alliance formation between NGOs that compete through … is more likely, the steeper are NGOs’ (negatively sloped) best-reply functions. Under the aggregative rule, the …
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proliferation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) interacting with production and sourcing decisions of multinational firms. In … a complementarity between the growth of global value chains and the emergence of NGOs: for a range of trade costs … trade costs, would be better-off in a world without NGOs. In an extension we show that NGOs may also crowd out investment in …
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What are the effects of the integration of markets for private donations for development on NGOs’ performance? How is … donations with horizontally differentiated NGOs competing by fundraising effort. We compare three regimes: autarky, full … integration, and the regime of multinational NGOs (in which NGOs have to establish foreign affiliates to raise funds abroad). The …
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In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
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international financial decision-making, also as it relates to the legitimacy of the international system in the eyes of the public …
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the preservation of the central bank’s legitimacy requires that a clear line be drawn between the central bank’s provision …
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This paper studies the relationship between political conflict and economic growth in a simple model of endogenous …
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German war crimes during the occupation between 1941 and 1944. During months of open conflict between German and Greek … curtailed their purchases of German cars to a greater extent during conflict months than other parts of Greece. We conclude that … cultural aversion was a key determinant of purchasing behavior, and that memories of past conflict can affect economic choices …
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