Using data for a large sample of German football referees, we studied the motives for becoming a football referee …. Based on a long modeling tradition in the literature on the economics of volunteering, we studied altruistic motives (public …-goods model) versus non-altruistic (egoistic private-consumption motives and human-capital motives). We differentiated between …

the study of the motives of Chinese overseas investors and, secondly, to contribute to the adjustment of general FDI … theory in such a way that it becomes more suited to the study of the motives of investors from any country of origin. FDI … from a non-Anglo-Saxon context. Furthermore, the study of the motives of foreign investors is of importance to policy …