Corporate Philanthropic Giving, Advertising Intensity, and Industry Competition Level

Health giving patterns of philanthropic foundations.

Advertising Restrictions and Competition in the Children’s Breakfast Cereal Industry

ASSOCIÉ AU :. Institut de Finance Mathématique de Montréal (IFM 2). Laboratoires universitaires Bell Canada. Réseau de calcul et de modélisation mathématique [RCM 2 ]. Réseau de centres d'excellence MITACS (Les mathématiques des technologies de l'information et des systèmes complexes) Les cahiers de la série scientifique (CS) visent à rendre accessibles des résultats de recherche effectuée au C...

Attitudes toward Advertising and Price Competition in the Press Industry

We consider a situation of duopolistic competition in the press industry, involving two editors competing in both the newspapers’ and advertising markets. The population of readers in this market is differentiated in terms of their attitudes toward advertising; some of them are assumed to be advertising-lovers, while the remaining ones are assumed to be advertisingaverse. We analyse a two-perio...

Corporate Giving: a Literature Review

In recent years, a significant amount of literature has emerged on the topic of Corporate Giving, which is embedded in the broader discussion about Corporate Social Responsibility. Studies show that while managers appear to have increasingly come to see the need to integrate or fit corporate philanthropic activity with the company’s core mission and strategy, the actual practice of such “strate...

Does Competition Affect Giving?∗

Charities often devise fund-raising strategies that exploit natural human competitiveness in combination with the desire for public recognition. We explore whether institutions promoting competition can affect altruistic giving even when possibilities for public acclaim are minimal. In a controlled laboratory experiment based on a sequential “dictator game”, we find that subjects tend to give m...