NGO Conference: Non-Profits, Governments and organisation
NGO Conference: Non-Profits, Governments and organisation
Friday 20 Mar 2015N.G.O. - Non-Profits, Governments and Organizations
11th and 12th June (accommodation available 10th & 11th June)
University of Warwick
Scarman House Conference Centre
Organisers: Kim Scharf (U of Warwick), Gani Aldashev (U of Namur), Emmanuelle Auriol (TSE), Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE) and Thierry Verdier (PSE).
If you have requested accommmodation at Scarman House Conference Centre, please see
delegate information and Campus Map.
For further details please contact Jane Snape jane.snape@warwick.ac.uk
Wednesday, June 11
08:45 – 09:00 Registration & coffee
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome and opening remarks
SESSION 1 (Junior) Chair: Gani Aldashev
09:15 – 09:50 Lea Cassar (PhD student, U of Zurich): “Contract Design with Motivated Agent: An Experimental Study”
09:50 – 10:25 Zaki Wahhaj (Asst. Prof., U of Kent): “Should Good Guys Be Punished? An Anomaly in a Principal-Agent Model with Altruistic Agents”
10:25 – 11:00 Elena Vallino (Post-doc, U of Turin): “NGOs and participatory conservation in developing countries: why are there inefficiencies?”
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 – 11:55 Ester Manna (PhD student, ECARES): “Customer-Oriented Employees: Blessing or Curse for Firms?”
11:55 – 12:30 Devesh Rustagi (Asst. Prof., U of Frankfurt): “Behavioral Origins of Institutions: Evidence from Ethiopia”
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
SESSION 2 Chair: Jean-Philippe Platteau
14:00 – 15:00 Vijayendra Rao (World Bank): “The Anatomy of Failure: An Ethnography of a Randomized Trial to Deepen Democracy in Rural India”
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 – 16:15 Rune Jansen Hagen (U of Bergen): “Why Northern NGOs hire too many Expatriates and what Southern Governments Can Do about It”
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30 Ragan Petrie (George Mason U): “Social Motives to Giving and Fundraising in Online Peer-to-Peer Networks”
19:30 Conference dinner
Thursday, June 12
08:45 – 09:00 Morning coffee
SESSION 3 Chair: Emmanuelle Auriol
09:00 – 10:00 Nick Zubanov (U of Frankfurt): "The Power of Recognition"
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 – 11:15 Kimberley Scharf (U of Warwick): "Are Donors Afraid of Charities’ Core Costs? Scale Economies in Nonprofit Provision, Technology Adoption and Entry"
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:45 Invited lecture: David Baron (Stanford GSB): "The Private Politics Market" presentation slides.
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
SESSION 4 Chair: Thierry Verdier
14:00 – 15:00 Jonathan Meer (Texas A&M U): "It's the Thought that Counts: A Field Experiment on Gift Exchange and Giving at a Public University"
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 – 16:15 Abigail Payne (McMaster U):"Does Income Inequality Increase Charitable Giving?"
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30 Sarah Smith (U of Bristol): "Not-for-profit as a signal of quality - evidence from a star-rating system for nursing homes"
17:30 - 17:40 Closing remark