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Dixit, Avinash K. - 2001

I consider transactions involving asymmetric prisoners dilemmas between pairs of players selected chosen from two large populations. Games are played repeatedly, but information about cheating is not adequate to sustain cooperation, and there is no official legal system of contract enforcement....

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Trust the police? : self-selection of motivated agents into the German police force

Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - 2016

We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and the willingness to enforce norms as key dimensions of intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find...

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Optimal targeting in fundraising : a machine-learning approach

Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Rincke, Johannes; … - 2021

causal machine-learning approach to increase a charity's fundraising effectiveness. The approach optimally targets …Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a … fundraising to individuals whose expected donations exceed solicitation costs. Among past donors, optimal targeting substantially …

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Understanding the time to court case resolution : a competing risks analysis using Belgian data

Bielen, Samantha; Grajzl, Peter; Marneffe, Wim - 2017

Court delays are a frequent concern, yet what explains court case duration remains incompletely understood. We study the time to court case resolution by drawing on a detailed case-level dataset of civil suits filed at a major Belgian court. We utilize the competing risks regression framework to...

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Donating time or money : are they substitutes or complements?

Hartmann, Bastian; Werding, Martin - 2012

Decisions to donate time or money for charitable purposes are typically seen as make-or-buy decisions, implying that there should be a clear distinction between individuals engaging in one of these two forms of giving and that this distinction should be somehow linked to opportunity costs. But...

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The signaling role of charitable contributions by business : a tax policy perspective

Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; … - 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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Charitable contributions by businesses : a tax policy perspective

Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; … - 2019

Empirical evidence suggests that charitable contributions to public goods by businesses 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...

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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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The complementary nature of trust and contract enforcement

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Netzer, Nick - 2021

Under weak contract enforcement the trading parties' trust, defined as their belief in other's trustworthiness, appears important for realizing gains from trade. In contrast, under strong contract enforcement beliefs about other's trustworthiness appear less important, suggesting that trust and...

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The slippery slope framework : extending the analysis by investigating factors affecting trust and power

Mardhiah, Mardhiah; Miranti, Riyana; Tanton, Robert - 2019

Many empirical studies have been conducted to test the Slippery Slope Framework (SSF) assumptions. Yet, only a few studies focus their attention on tax compliance factors associated with trust and power. Therefore, this study is dedicated to fully exploring these factors. The results show that...

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