Professor Kimberley Scharf

In this paper we discuss a number of issues in linking measures of the scale of a disaster to the aid response, particularly taking account of outliers in both scale of disaster and aid.

Fundraising interventions may lift donations and/or shift their composition and timing, making it important to study their effect across charity space and time. We find that major fundraising appeals lift total donations, but surprisingly shift donations to other charities across time.

This paper uses a survey-based approach to test alternative methods of channeling tax relief to donors - as a tax rebate for the donor or as a matched payment to the receiving charity.

This paper examines how capital tax competition affects jurisdiction formation.

This paper provides an empirical assessment of the overall incentives generated by taxes with respect to the choice between extraction and recycling of basic materials in Canada.

This paper examines the role of international tax evasion for the choice of an optimal foreign tax credit by a capital exporting region

This paper investigates whether tax competition can survive under tax coordination, when information is private or nonverifiable.