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Innovation, credit constraints, and trade credit: Evidence from a cross-country study
Bönte, Werner; Nielen, Sebastian - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between trade credit and innovation. While trade credit is well researched in the finance literature, its link to innovation has been neglected in prior research. We argue that innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are more likely to use trade...
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Donating time or money : are they substitutes or complements?
Hartmann, Bastian; Werding, Martin - 2012
Decisions to donate time or money for charitable purposes are typically seen as make-or-buy decisions, implying that there should be a clear distinction between individuals engaging in one of these two forms of giving and that this distinction should be somehow linked to opportunity costs. But...
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The effect of effectiveness : donor response to aid effectiveness in a direct mail fundraising experiment
Karlan, Dean; Wood, Daniel - 2014
We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program's impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used...
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Earning to Give : Occupational Choice for Effective Altruists
Morduch, Jonathan - 2018
exclusive options: a job with a for-profit firm and a lower-paid job with a nonprofit. We construct a model in which a worker … contributions to the nonprofit; this represents the “earning to give” option. By contrast, the occupational choice of a worker … cases, warm glow feelings may push the worker to take a job with the nonprofit, even when it is not optimal for the …
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The Effect of Effectiveness : Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment
Karlan, Dean S. - 2015
We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program's impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033843
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Private donations, government grants, commercial activities, and fundraising : cointegration and causality for NGOs in international development cooperation
Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2012
NGOs could help scale up foreign aid efforts by mobilizing private donations. However, fundraising activities do not necessarily result in higher donations, and substitution effects between different sources of revenue may diminish the overall pool of NGOs’ resources. This paper examines the...
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Racial Group Affinity and Religious Giving : Evidence from Congregation-Level Panel Data
Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina P.; Grajzl, Peter; Guse, A. … - 2014
Since giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by...
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Racial Group Affinity and Religious Giving : Evidence from Congregation-Level Panel Data
Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina P. - 2015
Since giving to religious organizations constitutes a substantial portion of total charitable giving, an understanding of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset, we examine whether religious giving is driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030325
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The distortionary effects of sterilised reserve accumulation on the domestic credit markets : evidence from Uganda
Okello, Apaa Jimmy; Mkenda, Beatrice Kalinda; Luvanda, Eliab - 2020
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The distortionary effects of sterilised reserve accumulation on domestic credit markets : evidence from Uganda
Apaa Okello, Jimmy; Mkenda, Beatrice Kalinda; Luvanda, Eliab - In: Central Bank review / Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey 19 (2019) 3, pp. 93-105
Some small open Least Income Countries embarked on rapid accumulation of foreign reserves in the wake of volatile capital inflows. Foreign reserve accumulation is one way of managing volatile capital flows. However, rapid and persistent accumulation is not only costly, but potentially distort...
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