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Nonprofit organizations face intense competition in the market for charitable contributions. Increasingly, donation decisions are made online, and organizations have responded by implementing substantive Internet disclosure and reporting regimes. We posit here that the voluntary disclosure of...
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This paper analyzes adjustment mechanisms for philanthropic organizations in a downturn. In the global philanthropic community, the current economic context and the difficulty to make sense of it have led donors to review their activities. In the 2008 recession, many foundation endowments have...
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the charitable giving from low-income donors. The economic subsidy theory of the charitable contribution deduction …. According to this theory, free riding causes market failures in charitable goods, and majoritarianism causes government failures …
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competing for donations in the fundraising market. Our aim is to investigate the impact of publicly available contract … information on fundraising competition of nonprofit organizations. We argue that, although such provision makes contract … relaxes existing fundraising competition. This is beneficial in terms of nonprofits' outputs, in particular when these …
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Recent high-profile scandals related to misuse of funding and donations have raised the demand for scrutiny over financial transparency and operational activities of non-profit organizations in developed countries. Our analysis challenges the common practice in the sector of using programme...
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The demand for transparency and reliability of information from nonprofit organisations has surged as stakeholders increasingly use nonprofit financial information for contracting and regulating decisions. Contrary to previous studies, we theoretically show that attempts to enhance the...
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Fund-raising expenditures represent an important strategic decision for nonprofit managers inthe face of scarce donor … output to its constituents. Socially, competition among nonprofit firms for donations may produce an excessive level of fund-raising …. This article empirically examines nonprofit fund-raising decisions, privately and socially, under varying market conditions …
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We conducted two fundraising experiments to study the effects (1) of compassion towards the beneficiary, and (2) of …
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Tax-exempt charitable organizations exert considerable influence over Congress, the Department of the Treasury, and the Internal Revenue Service in matters dealing with exemption from federal income tax and the tax deductibility of charitable contributions. This Article uses both public choice...
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This paper investigates whether and under what conditions the working of cooperative firms can be affected by competition law or market-enhancing regulations. The nature of collective benefits sought by different types of cooperative enterprises is analysed to show whether and how a tension may...
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