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Intermediation by Aid Agencies
Rowat, Colin; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper models aid agencies as financial intermediaries that do not make a financial return to depositors, since the depositors' concern is to transfer resources to investor-beneficiaries. This leads to a significant problem of verification of the agencies' activities. One solution to this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114171
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Intermediation by aid agencies
Rowat, Colin; Seabright, Paul - EconWPA - 2004
This paper models aid agencies as financial intermediaries that do not make a financial return to depositors, since the depositors' concern is to transfer resources to investor-beneficiaries. This leads to a significant problem of verification of the agencies' activities. One solution to this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561447
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Intermediation by Aid Agencies
Rowat, Colin; Seabright, Paul - 2005
donations as intended. One solution to this problem is for an agency to employ altruistic workers at below-market wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068522
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Earning to Give : Occupational Choice for Effective Altruists
Morduch, Jonathan - 2018
motivated only by pure altruism will work at a relatively high wage for the for-profit firm and then make charitable … sensitive to warm glow (“impure altruism”) depends on her income level. While the presence of “warm glow” feelings would seem to … clearly benefit charitable organizations, we show that impure altruism can create distortions in labor market choices. In some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920065
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An experiment on donations, personal stories, and bad luck
Bar-El, Ronen; Hatsor, Limor; Snir, Avichai - 2023 - Last revision: February 23, 2023
giving participants an opportunity to attribute small donations to luck. We find that exposing the participants to a plea to … help the beneficiary increases the average donation. Giving participants an opportunity to attribute small donations to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014232958
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L’analisi economica delle regole di origine: verso una nuova modellistica teorica ed empirica / Rules of origin in international trade: new theoretical and empirical models
Garavello, Oscar - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 61 (2008) 2-3, pp. 363-414
Rules of origin (Roo) define the criteria used to determine the ‘nationality’ of goods, services, producers or investments (firms) and are an important part of the commercial policy of all trading countries. Roo, determining which goods can benefit from the lower rates of customs duty under...
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Agevolazioni fiscali e settore non profit nell’esperienza italiana / Tax breaks and the non profit sector in Italy
Figari, Francesco; Gandullia, Luca; Petrini, Marco - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 61 (2008) 2-3, pp. 339-361
donations in favour of non profit organizations in Italy. In the first part, after an overview of the economic motivations and … the role of tax relief in the context of voluntary donations, we provide a brief description of the tax framework. In the … considers voluntary donations in favour of NPOs and NGOs, which represent the principal actors in the Italian non profit sector …
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Does it pay to work for free? : wage returns and gender differences in the market for volunteers
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2013
Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204510
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An experiment on donations, personal stories, and bad luck
Bar-El, Ronen; Hatsor, Limor; Snir, Avichai - 2023
giving participants an opportunity to attribute small donations to luck. We find that exposing the participants to a plea to … help the beneficiary increases the average donation. Giving participants an opportunity to attribute small donations to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014388408
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ordinary: Anti-Social Behavior in Profit and Non-Profit Organizations
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Brilon, Stefanie - 2010
Intrinsic motivation of workers may arise from different individual motives. While some workers care about the mission of an organization and derive an intrinsic benefit from advancing this mission ("good" workers), others derive pleasure from some form of destructive or anti-social behavior...
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