R. Carbone assembled an agenda for fundraising research that provided an excellent
general context for the review of research results in philanthropic fundraising, along with a …

With crowdfunding, an entrepreneur raises external financing from a large audience (the
“crowd”), in which each individual provides a very small amount, instead of soliciting a small …

Will a group of people reach a collective target through individual contributions when
everyone suffers individually if the target is missed? This “collective-risk social dilemma” …

Over the last few decades behavioral economics has revolutionized the discipline. It has
done so by putting the human back into economics, by recognizing that people sometimes …

We design a field experiment to test two theories of fund-raising for threshold public goods:
Andreoni predicts that publicly announced “seed money” will increase charitable donations …

I The title is an allusion to Grant Gilmore's book The Death of Contract (1974). For a listing of
other articles and essays that have used variations on Professor Gilmore's title, see Robert …

Past field validity tests of contingent valuation have relied on voluntary contribution
mechanisms to elicit actual willingness to pay, and may overestimate hypothetical bias …

Impersonal cooperation among strangers enables societies to create valuable public goods,
such as infrastructure, public services, and democracy. Several factors have been proposed …

Home assistant chat-bots, self-driving cars, drones or automated negotiation systems are
some of the several examples of autonomous (artificial) agents that have pervaded our …

This study designs a natural field experiment linked to a controlled laboratory experiment to
examine the effectiveness of matching gifts and challenge gifts, two popular strategies used …