SMU SOE Seminar Series (April 2, 2024): Differentiated Public Goods

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ABSTRACT A model of differentiated public goods helps resolve all three empirical puzzles regarding charity donations documented in Andreoni’s (1988) “The Limits of Altruism”. Government contributions to charitable activities can even crowd in, instead of crowd out, private giving. A diverse society is conceptually different from a polarized one, with more (less) charity donations in the former (latter) than in a homogeneous society. Like any profit-seeking entrepreneurs, activist entrepreneurs also face a product-design problem of how to package differentiated public goods into bundles to maximize donations. Keywords:Public goods, altruism, crowding in, diversity, polarization, product design, bundling. JEL Codes:D64, H41 Click here to view the CV. Click here to view the paper.
		PRESENTER Kim Sau Chung Hong Kong Baptist University
		RESEARCH FIELDS Political Economy Economic Theory
		DATE: 2 April 2024 (Tuesday)
		TIME: 4pm - 5.30pm
		VENUE: Meeting Room 5.1, Level 5 School of Economics Singapore Management University 90 Stamford Road Singapore 178903