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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision: Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding

Scharf, Kimberley - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these … situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non …-competitive effect on charity selection, raising the value of charity provision per dollar of funding. …

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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups

Scharf, Kimberley; Smith, Sarah - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of …

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Private Provision of Public Goods and Information Diffusion in Social Groups

Scharf, Kimberley - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We describe a model of fundraising in social groups, where private information about quality of provision is …

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Scale Economies in Nonprofit Provision, Technology Adoption and Entry

Scharf, Kimberley - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study competition between nonprofit providers supplying a collective service through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. When providers adopt a not-for-profit mission, the absence of a residual claimant can impede entry, pro- tecting the position of an inefficient incumbent. Moreover,...

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Are Donors Afraid of Charities' Core Costs? Scale Economies in Non-profit Provision

Perroni, Carlo; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sandford, Sarah; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We study contestability in non-profit markets where non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good or service through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit markets, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts between...

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State Capacity and Military Conflict

Gennaioli, Nicola; Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

In 1500, Europe was composed of hundreds of statelets and principalities, with weak central authority, no monopoly over the legitimate use of violence, and multiple, overlapping levels of jurisdiction. By 1800, Europe had consolidated into a handful of powerful, centralized nation states. We...

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Unemployment, Growth and Taxation in Industrial Countries

Daveri, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

To the layperson, the upward trend in European unemployment is related to the slowdown in economic growth. We argue that the layperson’s view is correct. The increase in European unemployment and the slowdown in economic growth are related because they stem from a common cause: an excessively...

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European Integration and the Future of the Welfare State

Sinn, Hans-Werner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper argues that increased factor mobility incurs the risk of dismantling the welfare state, even though this state may have useful allocative functions. It will be difficult to finance the welfare state with taxes on capital and it may be necessary to subsidize this factor in the sense...

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Does Tax Competition Tame the Leviathan?

Brülhart, Marius; Jametti, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study the impact of tax competition on equilibrium taxes and welfare, focusing on the jurisdictional fragmentation of federations. In a representative-agent model of fiscal federalism, fragmentation among jurisdictions with benevolent tax-setting authorities unambiguously reduces welfare. If,...

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What is the Domain of the Welfare State?

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...

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