"My Money Versus Your Money: An Investigation of UK NGOs' Income and Expenditure"
Abstract: Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have donated and commercial incomes, and hey spend them on both charitable and non-charitable expenditures. Standard economic theory implies that different sources of income are fungible, which means that income elasticities should be the same across income and expenditure categories. This paper seeks to test that assumption using panel data on 74 UK-based international NGOs. I find that changes in donated income primarily affect charitable expenditures, while changes in commercial income sources seem to affect mostly expenditures that relate less to the NGO's charitable mission. These findings suggest that incomes are not fungible but NGOs have mental accounts.
Publications:
"The Charitable Activities of Terrorist Organizations"
Public Choice, April 2007, 131(1), 177-195
Abstract: Violent groups sometimes invest significant resources in social work, notably in the form of charities and NGOs. The present paper models a terrorist group's charities as a means to advertise its cause in order to raise popular support. The analysis explains how different types of terrorist organizations arise in equilibrium, depending on government policies. Then, the interaction between a purely terrorist group and an independent local NGO is examined. It is shown that a purely terrorist group always invests in more attacks than an integrated terrorist-charity organization. Furthermore, the latter may have more NGO activity than a separate local NGO.
Other Research papers
"Business NGO partnerships and NGOs' primary missions"
Very preliminary and incomplete.