We analyze voluntary private contributions to public goods and the role seed money plays in signaling the public good's quality to potential subsequent contributors. We present a theoretical model and analyze two sets of naturally occurring data from crowd-funding platforms. After developing the...

We analyze voluntary private contributions to public goods and the role seed money plays in signaling the public good's quality to potential subsequent contributors. We present a theoretical model and analyze two sets of naturally occurring data from crowd-funding platforms. After developing the...

[Introduction:] Analyses of urban structures are traditionally conducted using population and employment density functions, which describe the behavior of these densities as a function of the distance from the Central Business District (hereafter - CBD). The three most critical assumptions...