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Non-discriminatory donation relief and strategic commitment under political competition (2019)
Journal Article
Giovanniello, M. A., Perroni, C., Scharf, K., & Slivinski, A. (2019). Non-discriminatory donation relief and strategic commitment under political competition. European Journal of Political Economy, 58, 164-177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2018.10.002

Tax relief for private donations towards the provision of collective goods can protect minorities from majority-driven outcomes in which tax revenues are exclusively used to finance the provision of public goods that are only valued by the majority.... Read More about Non-discriminatory donation relief and strategic commitment under political competition.

Are Donors Afraid of Core Costs? Economies of Scale and Contestability in Charity Markets* (2019)
Journal Article
Perroni, C., Pogrebna, G., Sandford, S., & Scharf, K. (2019). Are Donors Afraid of Core Costs? Economies of Scale and Contestability in Charity Markets*. Economic Journal, 129(622), 2608-2636. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uez006

We study contestability in charity markets where non-commercial, not-for-profit providers supply a homogeneous collective good through increasing-returns-to-scale technologies. Unlike in the case of for-profit competition, the absence of price-based... Read More about Are Donors Afraid of Core Costs? Economies of Scale and Contestability in Charity Markets*.