Author: John D. StraubPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Essays on Fundraising and Crowd-out of Charitable Contributions
Author: John D. StraubThree Essays on the Economics of Charitable Giving
Author: Bariş YörükEssays on Social Media Fundraising and E-commerce
Author: Xue TanPublisher:
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Category : Electronic commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This dissertation has two components: social media fundraising and e-commerce. The first component of social media fundraising discusses social media users' charitable content generation in essay 1 and charitable giving in essay 2. In essay 1, we examine how reciprocity of followees affects social influence on users' charitable content generation. We find that within a specific charitable topic, reciprocal relationship has a positive impact on social influence, and non-reciprocal relationship has a negative impact on social influence that drives content generation following the topic. In essay 2, we investigate how individual donation decisions are influenced by reputation incentive design, peer effects, and popularity effects. We find that despite the platform designer's desire to improve fundraising performance, higher visibility of donors' contributions may have negative impact on fundraising. Peer effects are found to be positive and, hence, provide a potential solution to the free-rider problem. It is also observed that while most users crowd to popular projects, a group of users who exhibit leadership features crowd out from popular projects. E-commerce is the second component, and it also includes two essays. In essay 3, we use a game-theoretical model to understand how membership free shipping (MFS) differs from contingent free shipping (CFS). We find that in a duopoly competition, sellers' choice between CFS and MFS resembles a prisoner's dilemma. While they will both earn a higher profit when they both choose MFS, one seller may have an incentive to deviate from cooperation. In essay 4, we examined the role of live chatting tools in online marketplaces. We find that live chat can work as a substitution for reputation.
To Profit Or Not to Profit
Author: Burton A. WeisbrodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521785068
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Nonprofit organizations are increasingly resembling private firms in a transformation bringing with it a shift in financial dependence from charitable donation to commercial sales activity. This book, first published in 1998, examines the reasons and consequences of the mimicry of private firms by fundraising nonprofits. User fees and revenue from 'ancillary' activities are mushrooming, with each having important side effects: pricing out of the market certain target groups; or distracting the nonprofit from its central mission. The authors focus first on issues that apply to nonprofits generally: the role of competition, analysis of nonprofit organization behavior, the effects of distribution goals and differential taxation of nonprofit and for-profit activity revenue, the effects of changes in donations on commercial activity, and conversions of nonprofits to for-profits. They then turn to specific industries: hospitals, universities, social service providers, zoos, museums, and public broadcasting. The book concludes with recommendations for research and for public policy toward nonprofits.
Funding Challenges and Successes in Arts Education
Author: Challons-Lipton, SiuPublisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522525823
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The arts and humanities are considered to be a core academic subject under federal law. This designation grants these education programs the right to federal funds; however, budget propositions do not allot the arts sufficient financial resources. Funding Challenges and Successes in Arts Education is a timely research publication featuring the most recent scholarly information on fiscal changes that support the financing of the humanities in national and international education. Including extensive coverage on a number of topics and perspectives such as strategic planning, school reform, and teacher training, this book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, teachers, and administrators seeking current research on innovative ways to fund the arts.
Proceedings of the ... Annual Conference on Taxation Held Under the Auspices of the National Tax Association-Tax Institute of America
Author: National Tax Association-Tax Institute of AmericaPublisher:
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Category : Local taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Abundance, Generosity, and the State
Author: Jörg Guido HülsmannPublisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610167694
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Human action is usually driven by the desire to obtain more for less, and, ideally something for nothing. This has sometimes been called the economic principle. The wish to “get free stuff” pervades all times and places, all sectors of the economy, all ages, and all social backgrounds. The very selfishness for which the market economy is often chided is, at bottom, a universal quest to obtain goods for free. Jörg Guido Hülsmann sets out to explore the boundaries of this endeavor. He investigates the nature, forms, causes, and consequences of gratuitous goods and concludes that they thrive within a free economy. But generosity and gratuitous abundance tend to be undermined and reversed by central banking and the welfare state. Dr Hülsmann is a professor of economics at the University of Angers in France. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute and a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
Public Goods
Author: Raymond G. BatinaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540276386
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
A wide-ranging survey of the theory and evidence on public goods, presenting the main literature on public goods, both theoretical and empirical, in a systematic manner. The breadth and depth of the book's coverage extends the existing literature in many ways.
American Doctoral Dissertations
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
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