In a door-to-door fundraising field experiment, we study the impact of fundraising mechanisms on charitable giving. We … and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory …, it raised the lowest revenue per household in the field. Our experiment reveals two potential explanations for this …

empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … price or all-pay raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated … difference between existing theory and the field. To conclude, we show that a model of charity auctions augmented by an …

empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … price or all-pay raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated … difference between existing theory and the field. To conclude, we show that a model of charity auctions augmented by an …

This paper investigates the importance of bidder types and product types in online charity auctions. Through a large …-scale controlled field experiment, the authors identify charitable and non-charitable bidders, and investigate bidding activities in … 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 … 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 …

donation promise and charity auction revenue. Using charity auctions we can determine consumers' willingness to pay for … relative appeal of CRM offerings in a fixed-price setting and suggest that charity auctions are cost-effective as part of …