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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418091
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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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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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Optimal targeting in fundraising : a machine-learning approach
Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Rincke, Johannes; … - 2021
Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a causal machine-learning approach to increase a charity's fundraising effectiveness. The approach optimally targets fundraising to individuals whose expected donations exceed...
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Politics and trade policy : an empirical investigation
Eicher, Theo S.; Osang, Thomas - 2001
In this paper we examine the empirical relevance of three prominent endogenous protection models. Is protection for sale, or do altruistic policy makers worry about political support? We find strong evidence that protection is indeed for sale. The important new result is, however, that not only...
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Neo-protectionism and the European lobbies
Belloc, Marianna - 2014
just signaling for active involvement in lobbying action, since we find evidence that actual meeting attendance has a …
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Repeated lobbying by commercial lobbyists and special interests
Groll, Thomas; Ellis, Christopher J. - 2016
Using a model of repeated agency, we explain previously unexplained features of the real-world lobbying industry …. Lobbying is divided between direct representation by special interests to policymakers, and indirect representation where … analytical structure allows us to explain several trends in lobbying. For example, using the observation that in the U.S. over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444131
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The political economy of services trade agreements
Fiorini, Matteo; Lebrand, Mathilde - 2016
on the influence of lobbying by both national firms and foreign multinationals on trade policies and the gains from …
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Fiscal federalism and endogenous lobbies' formation
Bordignon, Massimo; Colombo, Luca; Galmarini, Umberto - 2003
We study lobbying behavior by firms in a two-region economy, with either centralized or decentralized provision of … profit-enhancing local public goods. Firms compete either in the market, lobbying for public good provision once entered in a … market, or for the market, lobbying to gain ccess to it. When firms compete in the market, we show that lobbying is …
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