Private provision of public goods: Incentives for donations

Journal of Economic Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 497-519

  Pittel, Karen ^a   Rübbelke, Dirk T G ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charitable donations; Government policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749406633     PISSN: 01443585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443580610710433     Document Type: Article

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