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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014

Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form...

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The Signaling Role of Corporate Social Responsibility

Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram; Sharoni, Adi - CESifo - 2014

We examine the role of CSR as a mechanism for private provision of public goods. We argue that corporations are using CSR to signal high product quality and demonstrate that signaling gives rise to an excessive level of contributions that offsets the positive externality, which causes the...

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Cities in Fiscal Equalization

Buettner, Thiess; Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric - CESifo - 2008

Redistributive grants schemes, such as fiscal equalization, are a common characteristic of local public finance in several countries. However, large and small jurisdictions are treated differently by the respective fiscal equalization schemes that often tend to favour larger jurisdictions. This...

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Turning the Page on Business Formats for Digital Platforms: Does Apple's Agency Model Soften Competition?

Foros, Oystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Shaffer, Greg - CESifo - 2013

The agency model used by Apple and other platform providers such as Google allows upstream firms (content providers like book publishers and developers of apps) to choose the retail prices of their products (RPM) subject to a fixed revenue-sharing rule. We show that (i) this leads to higher...

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Pay What You Want as a Marketing Strategy in Monopolistic and Competitive Markets

Schmidt, Klaus; Spann, Martin; Zeithammer, Robert - CESifo - 2014

Pay What You Want (PWYW) can be an attractive marketing strategy to price discriminate between fair-minded and selfish customers, to fully penetrate a market without giving away the product for free, and to undercut competitors that use posted prices. We report on laboratory experiments that...

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Discounting and Welfare Analysis Over Time: Choosing the ç

Schumacher, Jan; Buchholz, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2008

social welfare function. We support this position by showing that, also from the view point of sustainability, application of …

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A Fiscal Rule that has Teeth: A Suggestion for a ‘Fiscal Sustainability Council’ underpinned by the Financial Markets

Hedbávný, Petr; Schneider, Ondrej; Zápal, Jan - CESifo - 2005

Sustainability Council––that would actively bring financial markets into the fiscal-policy process, and we explain the technique …

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Sustainability: A Panel Data Analysis

Farhani, Sahbi; Mrizak, Sana; Chaibi, Anissa; Rault, … - CESifo - 2014

In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental … specification, namely modified EKC (MEKC), we show that there is an inverted U-shape relationship between sustainability and human …. More interestingly, findings from the estimation show that EKC hypothesis, HD and sustainability are crucial to build …

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Economic Challenges in the Anthropocene

Musu, Ignazio - CESifo - 2013

countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy …

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Stable and Sustainable Global Tax Coordination with Leviathan Governments

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2014

Itaya et al. (2014) study the conditions for sustainability and stability of capital tax coordination in a repeated …

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