The nonprofit sector and industry performance
The nonprofit sector and industry performance
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非营利部门和行业绩效
DOI：
10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.11.004
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
T. Philipson
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作者：
D. Lakdawalla;T. Philipson
尽管非营利产业在经济中的重要性，很少有人分析这些产业的行为是否与营利性产业不同。扩展以前的企业层面的分析，我们提出了一个内生的非营利部门的新古典理论。我们的分析表明，非营利公司比营利公司具有竞争优势，因此行业的边际变化通过营利部门运作。因此，边际行业行为与营利性行业行为相同，非营利监管可能对整体行业绩效产生有限影响，甚至没有影响。我们的理论在方法论上的优势在于，标准的营利性分析直接适用于非营利公司，因为它们可以作为成本较低的营利性公司进行分析。我们讨论的方面的实证文献，测试这一理论的非营利活动。
Despite the importance of nonprofit industries in the economy, little analysis has been conducted as to whether the behavior of such industries differs from that of for-profit industries. Extending previous firm-level analyses, we propose a neoclassical theory with an endogenous nonprofit sector. Our analysis implies that nonprofit firms have a competitive advantage over for-profit firms, so that marginal changes in the industry operate through the for-profit sector. As such, marginal industry behavior is identical to that of a for-profit industry and nonprofit regulations may have a limited impact or even no impact on overall industry performance. Our theory has the methodological advantage that standard for-profit analysis applies directly to nonprofit firms, because they can be analyzed as for-profit firms with lower costs. We discuss aspects of the empirical literature that test this theory of nonprofit activity.