administrative expenses. The results of an experiment with a nationally representative sample (n = 1, 032) suggest that donors … increase transparency and accountability in the charity sector can have the unintended side effect of reducing charitable …

In a n experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donation s to a charity. Compared to the control group … charity . The choice of donation values over time shows strong persistence such that the difference between the two groups …

In an experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donations to a charity. When presented with a quality …

In an experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donations to a charity. When presented with a quality …

-in-the-field experiment. Our design treatments aim to increase the efficiency of crowdfunding campaigns by raising aggregate contributions and … window we implement our crowdfunding experiment using a web-based user interface with multiple threshold public goods …-up framed field experiment with actual nature conservation projects. …

centre of a Hotelling line. Finally, we provide three applications of our results to monopoly advertising under a uniform …

The paper formalizes the intuition that brands are consumed for image reasons and that advertising creates a brand …'s image. The key idea is that advertising informs the public of brand names and creates the possibility of conspicuous … consumption by rendering brands a signalling device. In a price competition framework, we show that advertising increases …

I present a model to describe the effects of persuasive advertising targeted at consumers with expectation …-based reference-dependent preferences. Persuasive advertising is competitive and increases the salience of advertised products while … deflated. I show that under moderate levels of loss aversion and product differentiation persuasive advertising has strictly …