A Classifier to Detect Profit and Non Profit Websites Upon Textual Metrics for Security Purposes

Quality competition with profit constraints: Do non-profit firms provide higher quality than for-profit firms?

In many markets, such as education, health care and public utilities, firms are often profit-constrained either due to regulation or because they have non-profit status. At the same time such firms might have altruistic concerns towards consumers. In this paper we study semi-altruistic firms’ incentives to invest in quality and cost-reducing effort when facing constraints on the distribution of...

The Origins and Purposes of Not for Profit Organizations

Utilizing Business Intelligence to Enhance Online Education at For-Profit and Non-Profit Institutions

With the increase in the demand of online education, especially for working people, there is a need for institutions that offer online education to identify, target, and market their services to people who are in need of furthering their education or who would be interested in using online education to advance their careers. The aim of this paper is to explore how Business Intelligence (BI) can...

Institutions and non profit organizations

This essay incorporates the concept of economic institutions as a key factor in the determination of the size and scope of the nonprofit sector. The cross-country study is based on a sample of 67 countries circa year 2000.

The economics of for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals.

This paper examines the economics of for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals through the prism of capital acquisitions. The exercise suggests that of two hospitals that are equally efficient in producing health care, the for-profit hospital would have to charge higher prices than the not-for-profit hospital would, to break even on capital acquisitions. The reasons for this divergence are (1) th...