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Thanks for Nothing? Not-for-Profits and Motivated Agents
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mueller, Hannes Felix - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We re-examine the labor donation theory of not-for-profits and show that these organizations may exist not necessarily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530355
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Are Elite Universities Losing their Competitive Edge?
Han Kim, E; Morse, Adair; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect...
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Cooperation Among Competitors: The Economics of Credit Card Associations
Rochet, Jean-Charles; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
The paper analyzes two controversial features of the credit card industry. The first is the cooperative determination of the interchange fee by member banks in credit card associations (Visa and MasterCard). The interchange fee is the ``access charge'' paid by the merchants' banks, the...
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Top Research Productivity and its Persistence
Kelchtermans, Stijn; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The paper contributes to the debate on cumulative advantage effects in academic research by examining top performance in research and its persistence over time, using a panel dataset comprising the publications of biomedical and exact scientists at the KU Leuven in the period 1992-2001. We study...
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Private Donations for International Development
Micklewright, John; Wright, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Charitable donations by private individuals and firms can help fund the Millennium Development Goals. What are the prospects for increasing donations for international development, whether from small-scale donors, the super-rich (as in the recent gifts by Bill Gates and Ted Turner), or the...
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Brothers in Alms? Coordination between NGOs on Markets for Development Donations
Aldashev, Gani; Marini, Marco; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
fundraising activities and impose externalities on each others’ output. We derive general results on the stability of full … coordination under two classes of alliance-formation rules: unanimity and aggregative. If fundraising activities are strategic …, coalitionally stable. When fundraising activities are strategic substitutes, the grandcoalition can be unstable and the instability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784769
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Intermediation by Aid Agencies
Rowat, Colin; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper models aid agencies as financial intermediaries that do not make a financial return to depositors, since the depositors' concern is to transfer resources to investor-beneficiaries. This leads to a significant problem of verification of the agencies' activities. One solution to this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114171
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Charitable Giving for Overseas Development: UK Trends Over a Quarter Century
Atkinson, Tony; Backus, Peter G.; Micklewright, John; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, reflecting the activities of development charities and the public response to a series of...
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Publications: German Economic Research Institutes on Track
Ketzler, Rolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
The request for a strengthening of academic research at the German economic research institutes by the German Science Council more than a decade ago was founded on the crucial insight that sound policy advice - the traditional task of the institutes - can only be guaranteed in the long term if...
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Competition, Equity and Quality in HealthCare
Halonen-Akatwijuka, Maija; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
In this paper we focus on the implications of consumer heterogeneity for whether competition will improve outcomes in health care markets. We show that competition generally favours the majority group as higher quality for the majority is an effective way to increase the quality signal and...
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