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Matching and challenge gifts to charity: evidence from laboratory and natural field experiments
Rondeau, Daniel; List, John A. - 2008
This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to examine the effectiveness of matching gifts and challenge gifts, two popular strategies used to secure a portion of the $200 billion annually given to charities. We find evidence that challenge gifts...
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Women on Boards – Experience from the Norwegian Quota Reform
Storvik, Aagoth - In: CESifo DICE Report 09 (2011) 1, pp. 34-41
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Besonders eklatant ist die Männerdominanz in der Finanzbranche: Sieben Fragen an Elke Holst
Holst, Elke; Wittenberg, Erich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 3, pp. 11
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Firm lifecycles and external restructuring
Hyytinen, Ari; Maliranta, Mika - 2011
This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … evidence for a prolonged positive exit effect that mirrors market selection during the early stages of firms'; lifecycle. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326885
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Charity auctions for the happy few
Bos, Olivier - 2008
Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate …
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Modelling charitable donations to an unexpected natural disaster: evidence from the U.S. panel study of income dynamics
Brown, Sarah; Harris, Mark N.; Taylor, Karl - 2009
to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …
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Charity Auctions : A Field Experimental Investigation
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004
empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … difference between existing theory and the field. To conclude, we show that a model of charity auctions augmented by an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271934
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Charity as a signal of trustworthhiness
Fehrler, Sebastian - 2010
you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior …
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An experimental investigation of intrinsic motivations for giving
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2011
towards the experimenters, (ii) the Crumpler and Grossman (2008) design, T2, in which the recipient is a charity, and the … third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to …
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The price elasticity of charitable giving: Does the form of tax relief matter?
Scharf, Kim; Smith, Sarah - 2010
rebate for the donor or as a matched payment to the receiving charity. On accounting grounds these two are equivalent but, in …
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