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Government Grants to Private Charities: Do They Crowd-Out Giving or Fundraising?
Andreoni, James; Payne, A Abigail - EconWPA - 2001
fundraising activities. This finding is important for two reasons. First, it means that the behavior of the nonprofit … nonprofit organizations. Charities are not passive receptables of contributions, as they have so often been treated in the past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560974
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Crowding –Out and Fundraising Efforts: The impact of government grants on Symphony Orchestras
Hughes, Patricia; Luksetich, William; Rooney, Patrick - Economics Department, St. Cloud State University - 2012
financing nonprofit activity. This paper looks at elements of crowd-out, both the direct impact on donors and the indirect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152968
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Social Economy and Social Economics –The Situation in the Republic of Ireland
Herrmann, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The Paper gives a brief overview over the social economy in Ireland, presenting this against the background of the countries history and social structure
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789427
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Do Expiring Budgets Lead to Wasteful Year-End Spending? Evidence from Federal Procurement
Liebman, Jeffrey B.; Mahoney, Neale - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - 2013
Many organizations have budgets that expire at the end of the fiscal year. Faced with uncertainty over future spending demands, these organizations have an incentive to build up a rainy day fund over the first part of the year. If demand does not materialize, they must rush to spend these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699955
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Parchment, guns, and the problem of governance
Garzarelli, Giampaolo; Holian, Matthew J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The genuine problem of governance is one that pays equal attention to both incentive and knowledge issues in private and public contexts. This work brings together Austrian, Public Choice and theory of the firm insights to address such problem. By taking into account incentives and knowledge, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111830
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Efficiency, Growth and Concentration: an Empirical Analysis of Hospital MArkets.
Mobley, L.R.; Frech III, H.E. - 1998
Taking evolutionary view of markets, Harold Demsetz hypothesized that firms differ persistently in efficiency and that industry concentration results from growth of efficient firms at the expense of inefficient ones. We test the hypothesis with high quality microdata from the US hospital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005245482
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Managed Care, Distance Traveled, and Hospital Market Definition.
Mobley, L.R.; Frech III, H.E. - 1998
Most scholars and antitrust cases have defined hospital service markets as primarily local. But, two recent decisions have greatly expanded geographic markets, incorporating hospitals as far as 100 miles apart. Managed care plans, now important in most markets, were believed to shift patients to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005245547
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R&D Collaboration Networks in Mixed Oligopoly
Zikos, Vasileios - In: Southern Economic Journal 77 (2010) 1, pp. 189-212
We develop a model of endogenous network formation in order to examine the incentives for R&D collaboration in a mixed oligopoly. Our analysis reveals that the complete network, where each firm collaborates with all others, is uniquely stable. When R&D subsidies are not available, in addition to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457581
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Taxes and Agglomeration Economies: How Are They Related to Nonprofit Firm Location?
Harrison, Teresa D. - In: Southern Economic Journal 75 (2008) 2, pp. 538-557
these factors have been largely overlooked for nonprofit institutions. I use firm-level data to investigate how corporate … and nonprofit location are negatively related. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005548399
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Mixed Competition and Welfare under Various Nonprofit Objectives Mixed Competition under Various Cost Configurations
Brhlikova, Petra - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2006
I study the competition between one nonprofit and one for-profit firm under various objective functions of the … nonprofit firm. The two firms optimize their objectives with respect to quality and price of their products. The nonprofit firm … decrease, and consumer and total surplus increase. For the case of quality maximization pursued by the nonprofit firm, I derive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086616