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

Scharf, Kimberley A. - 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-verifiable. Government funding arrangements, on the other...

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Competition in Public Service Provision : The Role of Not-for-Profit Providers

Besley, Timothy J. - 2018

With public services such as health and education, it is not straightforward for consumers to assess the quality of provision. Many such services are provided by monopoly not-for-profit providers and there is concern that for-profit providers may increase profit at the expense of quality. This...

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Are Donors Afraid of Charities' Core Costs? Scale Economies in Non-Profit Provision and Charity Selection

Perroni, Carlo - 2015

We study contestability in non-profit markets when non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts means that fixed...

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A Market for Connections

Miettinen, Topi - 2012

Government or company decisions on whom to hire are mostly delegated to politicians, public sector officials or human resources and procurement managers. Due to anti-corruption laws, agents cannot sell contracts or positions that they are delegated to decide upon. Even if bribing is ruled out,...

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Selling Strategic Information in Digital Competitive Markets

Bounie, David - 2018

This paper investigates the strategies of a data broker in selling information to one or to two competing firms that can price-discriminate consumers. The data broker can strategically choose any segment of the consumer demand (information structure) to sell to firms that implement third-degree...

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The Ifo Investment Database

Strobel, Thomas - 2013

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in … allows allocating investments by asset type to each industry, using an investment flow matrix. The database enables … investments. We describe the structure and methodology of the database and illustrate its variety and strengths by looking at some …

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Of Donor Coordination, Free-Riding, Darlings, and Orphans : The Dependence of Bilateral Aid on Other Bilateral Giving

Davies, Ronald B. - 2013

Using data from 1988 to 2007, we examine to what extent bilateral aid flows of an individual donor to a country depend on aid flows from all other bilateral and multilateral donors to that country. We thereby want to assess to what extent donor coordination, free-riding, selectivity,...

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On the Desirability of Taxing Charitable Contributions

Blumkin, Tomer - 2007

We develop a model that allows for public goods and status signaling through charitable contributions. This model provides a unified framework in which contributions are driven both by altruism and status signaling. We use this setup to re-examine the conventional practice of rendering a...

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The Signaling Role of Charitable Contributions by Businesses : A Tax Policy Perspective

Blumkin, Tomer - 2016

Empirical evidence suggests that charitable contributions to public goods may be driven not only by the familiar warm-glow of giving motive but also as a means for businesses to signal high product quality. Building on this finding, we present an analytical framework that characterizes the...

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Toward an Understanding of Why Suggestions Work in Charitable Fundraising : Theory and Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Edwards, James; List, John A. - 2021

People respond to those who ask. Within the charitable fundraising community, the power of the ask represents the … backbone of most fundraising strategies. Despite this, the optimal design of communication strategies has received less formal …

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