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Impure Prosocial Motivation in Charity Provision: Warm-Glow Charities and Implications for Public Funding

Scharf, Kimberley - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We show that warm-glow motives in provision by competing suppliers can lead to inefficient charity selection. In these … situations, discretionary donor choices can promote efficient charity selection even when provision outcomes are non …-competitive effect on charity selection, raising the value of charity provision per dollar of funding. …

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Relational Warm Glow and Giving in Social Groups

Scharf, Kimberley; Smith, Sarah - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

between social group size and fundraising outcomes: (i) a positive relationship between group size and the total number of …

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Are Donors Afraid of Charities' Core Costs? Scale Economies in Non-profit Provision

Perroni, Carlo; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sandford, Sarah; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We study contestability in non-profit markets where non-commercial providers supply a homogeneous collective good or service through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit markets, in the non-profit case the absence of price-based sales contracts between...

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Scale Economies in Nonprofit Provision, Technology Adoption and Entry

Scharf, Kimberley - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study competition between nonprofit providers supplying a collective service through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. When providers adopt a not-for-profit mission, the absence of a residual claimant can impede entry, pro- tecting the position of an inefficient incumbent. Moreover,...

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Private Provision of Public Goods and Information Diffusion in Social Groups

Scharf, Kimberley - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We describe a model of fundraising in social groups, where private information about quality of provision is …

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Estimating the Effects of Tax Reform in Differentiated Product Oligopolistic Markets

Fershtman, Chaim; Gandal, Neil; Markovich, Sarit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The incidence of taxation and the design of an optimal tax system have been extensively discussed in the public finance literature but mainly within a competitive market setting or within a homogenous good (Cournot type) oligopoly. In a differentiated product oligopoly, the effect of taxation...

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Competing for Capital in a 'Lumpy' World

Kind, Hans Jarle; Schjelderup, Guttorm; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper uses a new economic geography model to analyze tax competition between two countries trying to attract internationally mobile capital. Each government may levy a source tax on capital and a lump sum tax on fixed labor. If industry is concentrated in one of the countries, the analysis...

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Political Economics and Macroeconomic Policy

Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper surveys the recent literature on the theory of macroeconomic policy. We study the effect of various incentive constraints on the policy-making process, such as lack of credibility, political opportunism, political ideology, and divided government. The survey is organized in three...

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Excesses and Limits of the Public Sector in the Italian Economy. The Ongoing Reform

Schioppa, Padoa; Kostoris, Fiorella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper provides factual evidence on the extent of public intervention in the Italian economy. It further illustrates the internal contradictions and weaknesses of public action in Italy. New policy proposals to solve old structural problems of the Bel Paese are then discussed. Among them, a...

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Two is Company, N is a Crowd? Merchant Guilds and Social Capital

Dessí, Roberta; Piccolo, Salvatore - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Local merchant guilds were ubiquitous in medieval Europe, and their development was inextricably linked with the development of towns and the rise of the merchant class. We develop a theory of the emergence of local merchant guilds as an efficient mechanism to implement collusion among merchants...

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