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作者：de Oliveira, Angela C. M.; Croson, Rachel T. A.; Eckel, Catherine
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：One commonly used strategy in charitable fundraising is sharing names and contact information of donors between organizations, even those whose missions are unrelated. The efficacy of this practice hinges on the existence of giving types, that is, a positive correlation at the individual level between giving to one organization and to another. We run an experiment using a non-student sample (an artifactual field experiment) in which participants have the opportunity to donate to multiple chari...
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作者：Brooks, Leah; Strange, William C.
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Toronto
摘要：This paper carries out a micro-level analysis of collective goods provision by focusing on the formation of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs). The paper's theoretical and empirical analysis is unusually complete in that it considers the entire process of collective action, including participation in initial organization, voting, and ultimate impact on property values. BID benefits are shown to be highly uneven, and BID formation is not a Pareto improvement Furthermore, large anchor partici...
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作者：Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim
作者单位：Yale University; Pompeu Fabra University; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Climate science indicates that climate stabilization requires low GHG emissions. Is this consistent with nondecreasing human welfare? Our welfare or utility index emphasizes education, knowledge, and the environment. We construct and calibrate a multigenerational model with intertemporal links provided by education, physical capital. knowledge and the environment. We reject discounted utilitarianism and adopt, first, the Pure Sustainability Optimization (or Intergenerational Maximin) criterion...
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作者：Bierbrauer, Felix J.
作者单位：Max Planck Society
摘要：We study whether a firm that produces and sells access to an excludable public good should face a self-financing requirement, or, alternatively, receive subsidies that help to cover the cost of public-goods provision. The main result is that the desirability of a self-financing requirement is shaped by an equity-efficiency trade-off: while first-best efficiency is out of reach with such a requirement, its imposition limits the firm's ability of rent extraction. Hence, consumer surplus may be h...
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作者：Facchini, Giovanni; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; University of Milan; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：Immigration is today one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States. Despite marked divergence of opinion even within political parties, several important reforms have been introduced in the post 1965 era. The purpose of this paper is to carry out a systematic analysis of the drivers of the voting behavior of US representatives on immigration policy in the period 1970-2006, and in particular to assess the role of economic factors at the district level. Our findings suggest th...
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作者：Imai, Masami; Shelton, Cameron A.
作者单位：Claremont Colleges; Claremont McKenna College; Claremont Graduate University; Wesleyan University
摘要：We examine the effects of party platforms on the economic opportunities of firms using a unique data set from a political prediction market in Taiwan, a country with two dominant parties whose political cleavage derives mainly from a single issue: the One China Principle. We find that during the 2008 Presidential campaign, the share price of Taiwanese firms with investments in the mainland responded strongly and positively to a positive electoral outlook for the KMT, the party which advocates ...
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作者：Anand, Paul
作者单位：Open University - UK; University of Oxford
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作者：D' Amato, Marcello; Galasso, Vincenzo
作者单位：Bocconi University; University of Salerno
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作者：Mengel, Friederike; Peeters, Ronald
作者单位：Maastricht University
摘要：We conduct a repeated VCM (voluntary contribution mechanism) experiment using the strategy method and compare contribution behavior in a partner and a stranger matching in both a cold and a hot setting, where the latter differs from the former by allowing participants to revise their strategies in each round. Irrespective of whether the setting is hot or cold we find that partners provide higher initial contributions than strangers. In the cold setting (without revision possibility) partners c...
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作者：Andreoni, James; Rao, Justin M.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; National Bureau of Economic Research; Yahoo! Inc
摘要：To understand the pure incentives of altruism, economic laboratory research on humans almost always forbids communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which clearly must influence choices. Charities, for example, speak of the power of asking. Indeed, evolutionary theories of altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between herself and a receiver...
