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Competition in public service provision : the role of not-for-profit providers

Besley, Timothy; Malcomson, James M. - 2017

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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Contracting out mandatory counselling and training for long-term unemployed : private for-profit or non-profit, or keep it public?

Cockx, Bart; Baert, Stijn - 2015 - Date: October 26, 2015

This study evaluates the effectiveness of contracting out mandatory publicly provided counselling and training for long-term unemployed in Flanders (Belgium) to private for-profit and non-profit organisations (FPOs and NPOs). A multivariate transition model exploits timing-of-events and novel...

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The challenges of service delivery by charities in Ghana : the case of Rotary

Gollo, Janet Serwah; Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2024

We investigated the factors that negatively affect the service delivery capacity of charities in Ghana by using seven Rotary clubs as a case study. Primary data was collected via a survey of executives of the seven Rotary clubs. Our analysis revealed that the three main challenges that Rotary...

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Is charitable giving political? : evidence from wealth and income tax returns

Cagé, Julia; Guillot, Malka - 2025

Is charitable giving politically motivated? This article uses exhaustive administrative household panel data and a natural experiment to investigate the giving behavior of wealthy households and quantify their preferences for charitable and political donations. Our dataset includes all the...

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Impure prosocial motivation in charity provision : warm-glow charities and implications for public funding

Scharf, Kimberley Ann - 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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Are donors afraid of charities' core costs? : scale economies in non-profit provision and charity selection

Perroni, Carlo; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sandford, Sarah; … - 2014

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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The penalty-duel and institutional design : is there a Neeskens-effect?

Leininger, Wolfgang (contributor); … - 2008

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Does federalism affect e-government in Germany?

Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang-woon; Steinhoff, Peter - 2023

International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired … orientation. In order to provide better and faster public services in Germany, the Online Access Act was introduced in 2017, which … 2022. However, this deadline has not been met. This study suggests that Germany's federal political structure is …

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Optimal harvesting of a spatial renewable resource

Behringer, Stefan; Upmann, Thorsten - 2012

In this paper we investigate optimal harvesting of a renewable natural resource. While in the standard approach the resource is located at a single point in space we allow for the resource to be distributed over the plane. Consequently, an agent who exploits the resource has to travel from one...

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Business groups in emerging markets : financial control and sequential investment

Hainz, Christa (contributor) - 2006

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