When NGOs go global: Competition on international markets for development donations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Aldashev, Gani; Verdier, Thierry
• 署名单位: University of Namur; University of Southampton
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2009.07.007
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 198-210
• 关键词: Non-governmental organizations; Charitable giving; Fundraising; GLOBALIZATION; multinational firms

摘要

Why are many large non-governmental organizations (NGOs) becoming multinational entities? What are the welfare implications of this integration of markets for development donations? To answer these questions, we build a simple two-country model with horizontally differentiated NGOs competing in fundraising. We find that NGCs become multinational if the economies of scale in fundraising are sufficiently large. In that case, national NGOs in the smaller country disappear, while some national NGOs remain in the larger country only if country sizes are sufficiently different. Social welfare is higher in the regime with multinationals than under autarky. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.