What determines the size of the nonprofit sector?: A cross-country analysis of the government failure theory

Voluntas

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 180-201

  Matsunaga, Yoshiho ^a   Yamauchi, Naoto ^b   Okuyama, Naoko ^b  

^a Osaka University of Commerce   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

A fixed effects model; A pooling model; Demand heterogeneity; The government failure theory; The size of the nonprofit sector

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; MODELING; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION; PANEL DATA; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77951724463     PISSN: 09578765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-010-9125-9     Document Type: Article

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