This paper empirically characterizes competitive behavior among charitable nonprofits where prices and output are difficult to observe. Using a model tailored to donative nonprofits and an empirical methodology that exploits cross-sectional variation in market size and various measurable...

This paper introduces a new empirical approach to the nonprofit literature which can measure competition between nonprofit organizations. Our approach provides a framework to determine when and how the number of firms may be incorporated in empirical competitive analysis. We then systematically...