We report an experiment conducted to gain insight into factors that may affect revenues in English auctions and lotteries, two commonly used charity fund-raising formats. In particular, we examine how changes in the marginal per capita return (MPCR) from the public component of bidding, and how...

Revenue from the saints, the showoffs and the predators : comparisons of auctions with price-preference values / Timothy C. Salmon, R. Mark Isaac -- Multiple public goods and lottery fund raising / Robert Moir -- The impact of social comparisons on nonprofit fund raising / Jen Shang, Rachel...