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Nonprofit and profit companies in monopolistic competition

Skak, Morten - Institut for Virksomhedsledelse og Økonomi, Syddansk … - 2011

A homogenous goods market with nonprofit and profit companies engaged in monopolistic competition is proposed. In a short run equilibrium, entrance of more companies of both types increases consumer surplus and reduces company profit. However, nonprofit companies under a long run zero profit...

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Crop Minimum Support Price versus Cost Subsidy : Farmer and Consumer Welfare

Chintapalli, Prashant; Tang, Christopher S. - 2021

should the prevailing market price be below the pre-specified MSP. In this paper, we consider a market consisting of infinitesimally small, rational, and strategic farmers(with heterogeneous production costs) who face market and yield uncertainties. Our equilibrium analysis reveals that (i)...

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Competition, Contractibility, and the Market for Donors to Non-Profits

Castaneda, Marco A. - 2015

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the effects of competition for donors on the behavior of non-profit organizations. Theoretically, we consider a situation in which non-profit organizations use donations to produce some commodity, but the use of donations is only partially...

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Optimal targeting in fundraising : a machine-learning approach

Cagala, Tobias; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Rincke, Johannes; … - 2021

Ineffective fundraising lowers the resources charities can use for goods provision. We combine a field experiment and a … causal machine-learning approach to increase a charity’s fundraising effectiveness. The approach optimally targets … fundraising to individuals whose expected donations exceed solicitation costs. Among past donors, optimal targeting substantially …

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Quality-aware tax incentives for charitable contributions

Halberstam, Zachary; Hines, James R. - 2023

This paper characterizes efficient tax subsidies for charitable contributions, and considers the properties of potential reforms. Contributions are underprovided in the absence of subsidies, and are misdirected if subsidies fail to account for all of the costs that donors incur. It is costly for...

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Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving

Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The philanthropic sector is highly consequential, particularly in the United States, and the most important policies directed toward this sector are tax policies. Yet most economic analysis of the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is ad hoc, treating it as a subject unto itself. This...

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Newspaper differentiation and investments in journalism : the role of tax policy

Kind, Hans Jarle; Schjelderup, Guttorm; Stähler, Frank - 2011

Many countries levy reduced-rate indirect taxes on newspapers, with proclaimed policy goals of stimulating investment in journalism and ensuring low newspaper prices. However, by taking into account the fact that the media industry operates in two-sided markets, we find the paradoxical result...

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Newspaper Differentiation and Investments in Journalism : The Role of Tax Policy

Kind, Hans Jarle - 2011

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Newspaper Differentiation and Investments in Journalism : The Role of Tax Policy

Kind, Hans Jarle - 2011

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Newspaper Differentiation and Investments in Journalism : The Role of Tax Policy

Kind, Hans Jarle - 2010

Newspapers are considered to be important providers of information, culture and language, and are taxed at a reduced VAT rate in most countries. This paper shows that such a policy may a¤ect newspaper differentiation and lead to greater media bias. We further show that a reduced-rate VAT scheme...

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