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Bidding to give in the Field: Door-to-Door Fundraisers had it right from the Start

Onderstal, Sander; Schram, Arthur J.C.; Soetevent, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non-anonymous voluntary … contribution mechanism (VCM), or an anonymous VCM. In contrast to the VCMs, households competed for a prize in the all-pay auction … and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory …

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Auctions under Payoff Uncertainty: The Case with Heterogeneous Bidder-Aversion to Downside Risk

Hu, Audrey; Zou, Liang - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper characterizes the optimal first-price auction (FPA) and second-price auction (SPA) for selling rights …

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Inverse Adverse Selection: The Market for Gems

Dari-Mattiacci, Giuseppe; Onderstal, Sander; Parisi, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

This paper studies markets plagued with asymmetric information on the quality of traded goods. In Akerlof's setting, sellers are better informed than buyers. In contrast, we examine cases where buyers are better informed than sellers. This creates an inverse adverse selection problem: The market...

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Compensatory Inter Vivos Gifts

Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Parents’ transfer motives are important for understanding, e.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance. Using data from six biennial waves of the Health and Retirement Study 1992–2002, we estimate grouped tobit-type latent variable models with multi-level error...

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Payment Choice, Image Motivation and Contributions to Charity

Soetevent, Adriaan R. - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

This study uses a door-to-door fundraising field experiment to examine the impact of different payment options on charitable giving. Households are randomly divided into three treatments, distinguished by the possibility for respondents to donate cash, by debit card, or both. I find that due to...

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The Sustainability of the Pay-as-you-go System with Falling Birth Rates

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

A model is presented that explains the mix between funded and unfunded pension systems. It turns out that total pension and the relative shares of the two systems may be explained and are determined by the population growth rate, technological growth, the time-preference discount rate, the...

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Dedicated Doctors: Public and Private Provision of Health Care with Altruistic Physicians

Delfgaauw, Josse - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Physicians are supposed to serve patients' interests, but some are more inclined to do so than others. This paper studies how the system of health care provision affects the allocation of patients to physicians when physicians differ in altruism. We show that allowing for private provision of...

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On the Nature, Modeling, and Neural Bases of Social Ties

Winden, Frans van; Stallen, Mirre; Ridderinkhof, K. Richard - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

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Strategic Wage Setting and Coordination Frictions with Multiple Applications

Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-González, José L. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

We examine wage competition in a model where identical workers choose the number of jobs to apply for and identical firms simultaneously post a wage. The Nash equilibrium of this game exhibits the following properties: (i) an equilibrium where workers apply for just one job exhibits unemployment...

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An Integrated Dynamic Model of Road Traffic Congestion based on Simple Car-Following Theory

Verhoef, Erik T. - Tinbergen Institute - 1998

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