and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory …In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We … approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non-anonymous voluntary …

charity auctions, regardless of whether they win the auction. Finally, the authors find that higher value products attain a …This paper investigates the importance of bidder types and product types in online charity auctions. Through a large … charity and non-charity auctions. Results show that charitable bidders are willing to pay a significant premium in charity …

We present a model of charity auctions in which all bidders receive a benefit from the host charity raising revenue …, or bids could be depressed by the public goods nature of auction revenue. We study first- and second-price auctions and … all-pay auctions. Revenue equivalence is unbalanced whenever a bidder benefits from the charity collecting another bidder …

that assumption in the context of charity auctions. As understanding charitable motives has important implications for … auction design and charities’ fundraising strategies, this study investigates bidders’ specific types of charitable motives … conducted on a local Internet auction site. We use a novel design in which we simultaneously run charity and non-charity …