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Recent literature has shown that all-pay auctions raise more money for charity than winner-pay auctions. We demonstrate …
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to the victims of the tsunami on future donations to charity, however, our findings suggest an inverse relationship with …
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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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you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity and other forms of prosocial behavior …
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progress of science, is greatly facilitated when basic scientific knowledge is public and open. The paper explores the various …
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Governments rely extensively on expertise, and arguably many of the major accomplishments over the last 50 years reflect the ideas and involvement of experts. Yet expertise in world politics is increasingly contested. What are the factors which influence the future of state to defer to expertise...
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, der Abwertung der Wissenschaft sowie der zunehmenden Distanz der Wissenschaft zur Mitteder Gesellschaft. Der Kommentar … the danger of making inter- and transdisciplinary research more difficult, of depreciating science and of increasing the … distance between science and the centre of society. The commentary pleads for a faster, stronger focus on the very big …
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While societal expectations for university research have grown, university research has become more and more dependent on external funding sources. External funding has substantially increased at Finnish – and also UK – universities, and currently in practice a major share of university...
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An important prerequisite for the renewal of Finland’s industrial and economic base is the ability of the universities to promote the renewal of the knowledge base. The UNI project studied ways in which changes in external funding mechanisms and recent governance changes in Finnish...
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