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The Seeds of Negativity: Knowledge and Money

open access: greenMarketing Science, 2010
This paper studies the tendency to use negative ads. For this purpose, we focus on an interesting industry (political campaigns) and an intriguing empirical regularity (the tendency to “go negative” is higher in close races). We present a model of electoral competition in which ads inform voters either of the good traits of the candidate or of the bad ...
Mitchell J. Lovett, Ron Shachar
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A Coordination Game Model of Charitable Giving and Seed Money Effect [PDF]

open access: greenJournal of Public Economic Theory, 2011
AbstractIf potential donors for a charity project possess the warm‐glow properties in their preferences, we can represent their behavior with a coordination game. Accordingly, we construct a simultaneous incomplete information game model of charitable giving based on a simple global coordination game.
Kentaro Hatsumi
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Informative Fundraising: The Signaling Value of Seed Money and Matching Gifts

open access: greenSSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Abstract While existing theory predicts that matching leadership gifts raise more voluntary contributions for public goods than seed money, recent field experiments find otherwise. We reconcile the two by studying a model of leadership giving with incomplete information about the quality of the public good provided by a charity.
Silvana Krasteva, Piruz Saboury
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Leadership Giving in Charitable Fund-Raising: Matching Grants or Seed Money?

open access: greenSSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
A benefactor's leadership gift can be packaged as seed money or a matching grant. Small donors, charities and benefactors may disagree about this choice. Small donors' preferences will depend on their utility functions, the donor base and the size of the leadership gift.
Bruce D. Grundy, Ning Gong
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The Effect of Seed Money and Matching Gifts in Fundraising: A Lab Experiment

open access: greenSSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
Existing experimental studies find weak support for the theoretical prediction that matching leadership giving alleviates free-riding and raises more voluntary contributions for public goods relative to seed money. However, while most experimental studies use exogenous variations of the leadership gift, theoretical models allow for this choice to be ...
Piruz Saboury   +2 more
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Charitable Fund Raising: Matching Grants or Seed Money?

open access: greenSSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Bruce D. Grundy, Ning Gong
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Berry's money saving seed guide : 29th season, 1924 /

open access: green, 1924
Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection.
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