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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 solicitation costs. Among past donors, optimal targeting substantially …

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Quality-aware tax incentives for charitable contributions

Halberstam, Zachary; Hines, James R. - 2023

This paper characterizes efficient tax subsidies for charitable contributions, and considers the properties of potential reforms. Contributions are underprovided in the absence of subsidies, and are misdirected if subsidies fail to account for all of the costs that donors incur. It is costly for...

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Newspaper differentiation and investments in journalism : the role of tax policy

Kind, Hans Jarle; Schjelderup, Guttorm; Stähler, Frank - 2011

Many countries levy reduced-rate indirect taxes on newspapers, with proclaimed policy goals of stimulating investment in journalism and ensuring low newspaper prices. However, by taking into account the fact that the media industry operates in two-sided markets, we find the paradoxical result...

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Imperfect financial markets as a commitment device for the government

Simon, Jenny - 2014

When the government lacks the ability to commit to a tax policy over time, agents' involvement in imperfect financial markets can be welfare improving. Agents borrow against their promised income in markets that are incomplete in the sense that claims cannot be resold without loss. Taking these...

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Optimal taxation and constrained inefficiency in an infinite-horizon economy with incomplete markets

Gottardi, Piero; Kajii, Atsushi; Nakajima, Tomoyuki - 2011

We study the dynamic Ramsey problem of finding optimal public debt and linear taxes on capital and labor income within a tractable infinite horizon model with incomplete markets. With zero public expenditure and debt, it is optimal to tax the risky labor income and subsidize capital, while a...

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Human capital investment and globalization in extortionary states

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2002

This paper considers education investment and public education policy in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy chooses an education policy in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time-consistent taxation similar to benevolent...

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The impact of entry regulation on total welfare : a policy experiment

Liu, An-Hsiang; Siebert, Ralph; Zulehner, Christine - 2013

This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a dynamic structural model. We formulate an oligopoly model in the tradition of Ericson and Pakes (1995) and allow entry costs to vary over time. Firms have the opportunity to...

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The limits of marketplace fee discrimination

Tremblay, Mark J. - 2021

Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of merchant fees). To better understand the impact of marketplace fee discrimination, we develop a model that allows us to determine equilibrium fee and category decisions that depend...

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Market structure and market access

Francois, Joseph F. (contributor); Wooton, Ian (contributor) - 2008

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Market concentration in Europe : evidence from antitrust markets

Affeldt, Pauline Luise; Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; … - 2021

An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market shares are poorly measured at the national industry level...

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