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All That Glows Is Not Warm Glow: Private Contributions and Social Recognition
Shrestha, Ratna K; Cheung, Kwang Soo - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2001
By considering social status-seeking consumers who derive utility from the social recognition of their contributions to public goods, we investigate the efficiency and equity aspects of the equilibrium supply of public goods. Our model departs from the previous studies, such as Andreoni's (1989,...
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All-Pay Auctions vs. Lotteries as Provisional Fixed-Prize Fundraising Mechanisms
Duffy, John; Matros, Alexander - Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh - 2011
-pay auction. Consistent with the theory, we find that the mpcr matters for contribution amounts under the lottery mechanism …. However, inconsistent with the theory bids are always significantly higher than predicted and there is no significant …
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Encouraging Private Ownership of Public Goods: Theory and Evidence from Belgium
Aldashev, Gani; Libois, François; Morales Belpaire, … - Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de … - 2014
We study short-run and long-run effects of a government subsidy to private nonprofit ownership of public good projects. In a simple model, we show that the subsidy increases the prices of project assets in the short run; however, the effect does not persist and prices decline in the long run....
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Giving Little by Little: Dynamic Voluntary Contribution Games
Vesterlund, Lise; Duffy, John; Ochs, Jack - Econometric Society - 2004
Shelling (1960) among others have argued that contributions to public goods may be larger if people spread their contributions and give one small contribution at a time. Examining a threshold public good environment, Marx and Matthews (2000) show that multiple rounds may secure a provision level...
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Seeds to succeed?
Bracha, Anat; Menietti, Michael; Vesterlund, Lise - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 5, pp. 416-427
(1998) argues that such a fundraising strategy may be particularly effective when funds are being raised for projects that … strength of the theory we examine the effect of announcements in both the presence and absence of fixed costs. Our findings are … supportive of the theory for sufficiently high fixed costs. …
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On sequential and simultaneous contributions under incomplete information
Bag, Parimal; Roy, Santanu - In: International Journal of Game Theory 40 (2011) 1, pp. 119-145
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Ökonomisches Konzept zur Parkraumbewirtschaftung in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Bruns, Oliver; Ebel, Heike Marie; Hohloch, Marc; … - Fakultät Wirtschaft und Management, Technische … - 2002
Die Überlastung der vorhandenen Verkehrsinfrastruktur in Ballungsgebieten zu den Hauptverkehrszeiten stellt ein zunehmendes wirtschaftliches und verkehrliches Problem dar. In diesem Beitrag werden Lösungsmöglichkeiten für eine effiziente Verteilung bzw. Allokation des knappen Gutes Freie...
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Eine erweiterte Gesamtrechnung der multifunktionalen Schweizer Landwirtschaft
Schlaepfer, Felix; Mann, Stefan - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2012
In diesem Beitrag wird nach Wegen gesucht, die nichtmarktlichen Leistungen der Schweizer Landwirtschaft gezielter als bislang in die Landwirtschaftliche Gesamtrechnung zu integrieren. Dabei werden drei Methoden geprüft: Die Erfassung der leistungsbezogenen Direktzahlungen, die Ermittlung der...
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Voluntary Work in Europe: Comparative Analysis Among Countries and Welfare Systems
Gil-Lacruz, Ana; Marcuello, Carmen - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 2, pp. 371-382
The main contribution of this paper to the research of volunteering participation is considering simultaneously different levels of data aggregation: individual, country and welfare regimen. This strategy allows us identifying individual factors (socio-demographic variables) and contextual data...
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Voluntary work and wages
Bruno, Bruna; Fiorillo, Damiano - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2014
The effects of voluntary work on earnings have recently been studied for some developed countries such as Canada, France and Austria. This paper extends this line of research to Italy, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) dataset. A double...
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