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Charity Auctions for the Happy Few
Bos, Olivier - CESifo - 2008
Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate that the first and second-price winner-pay auctions generate higher revenue than first-price all-pay auctions when bidders are sufficiently asymmetric. To prove it, we consider...
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Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2013
In this paper we investigate the relationship between earnings and charitable giving. We set up a real effort experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece rate. From the second occasion onwards, we randomly assign half of the subjects to a treatment...
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Globalization and Domestic Conflict
Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - CESifo - 2005
We examine how globalization affects trade patterns and welfare when conflict prevails domestically. We do so in a …”). Thus, conflict is viewed as ultimately stemming from imperfect property-rights enforcement. When comparing autarky with … conflict. We find that importers of the contested resource gain unambiguously. By contrast, countries exporting the contested …
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