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Charitable organizations are often evaluated by donors and regulators based on various efficiency ratios, including the program ratio. We explore whether charities conform to donor pressure to maintain or improve program ratios when allocating resources. We use a sample of 5,626 charities...
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In dependence of kind of realized mission, sensitivity on risk, which is a result of decision about liquid assets investment level and liquid assets financing. The kind of organization influence the best strategy choice. The organization choosing between various solutions in liquid assets needs...
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Should mergers among nonprofit organizations be assessed differently than mergers among for-profit firms? A recent debate in law and economics, boosted by apparently one-sided court decisions, has produced the result that promoting competition is socially valuable regardless of the particular...
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I study the competition between one nonprofit and one for-profit firm under various objective functions of the nonprofit firm. The two firms optimize their objectives with respect to quality and price of their products. The nonprofit firm serves one-half of the market under pure quality...
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The need to identify the distinctive logic of the nonprofit sector, recently pronounced in the literature, gives rise to the need to substantiate links between the logics of different societal sectors. This paper seeks to identify links between the logics of for-profit and nonprofit sectors from...
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organisational structures and mechanisms that benefit the disadvantaged. However, very little economic theory has been applied to …
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We present the first estimates of investment returns and distribution rates for U.S. non-profit endowment funds, based on a comprehensive sample of 35,262 organizations drawn from Internal Revenue Service filings for 2009-2018, a period that saw a sharp drop followed by a lengthy appreciation in...
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With public services such as health and education, it is not straightforward for consumers to assess the quality of provision. Many such services are provided by monopoly not-for-profit providers and there is concern that for-profit providers may increase profit at the expense of quality. This...
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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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