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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 …
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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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Socialism without liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Sociologia Ruralis 28 (1988) 2/3, pp. 161-175
One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...
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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2009
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I develop an empirical strategy that...
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Geography, institutions, and the making of comparative development
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...
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Vergleichsverbot? Bevölkerungsstatistiken und die Frage der Vergleichbarkeit in den deutschen Kolonien (1885–1914)
Renard, Léa - In: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und … 73 (2021) Suppl 1, pp. 169-194
Der Beitrag untersucht das Verhältnis von statistischen Klassifikationen und Vergleichen in deutschen Kolonialstatistiken zwischen 1885 und 1914 und geht der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung und welche Ausprägungen dem Vergleich in Bezug auf Raum und Bevölkerung in kolonialen Statistiken zukamen....
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Managing competitive advantage: Clustering in the Singapore financial centre
Kuah, Adrian T.H. - 2008
Singapore Financial Centre. The revelatory case of the underresearched Singapore cluster reveals (a) how clustering conditions …
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Health-Care Reforms in Singapore - Twenty Years of Medical Savings Accounts
Schreyögg, Jonas; Kin, Lim Meng - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 3, pp. 55-60
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