@article{4d5b882e9e314f049ad67c3d1d9baf17,
title = "AUCTIONS FOR CHARITY: THE CURSE OF THE FAMILIAR",
abstract = "Auctions and raffles are commonly used to fund public goods. We run fundraising events in the field at the meetings of a well-known service organization across the United States to examine the fundraising properties of five mechanisms: one that is common in the literature, two that are familiar to practitioners in the field, and two that are new. Consistent with a novel model assuming independent private attachments to the charity, we find large differences in the performance between the two most familiar formats, but these disparities are dwarfed by the differentials achieved using the new and less common formats.",
author = "Jeffrey Carpenter and Damianov, {Damian S.} and Matthews, {Peter Hans}",
note = "Funding Information: You are about to participate in a charity fundraiser. The bottles of wine have been provided by a research grant from the National Science Foundation. All the proceeds from this event will be donated directly to this local Rotary chapter. Funding Information: We thank Catherine Collins, Brent Davis, Ryan Freling, Joshua Foster, Ellen Green, Daniel Jones, Malcolm Kass, James Kelly, Andrew Kloosterman, Peter Kriss, Nick Lovejoy, Jens Schubert, and Anand Shukla for research assistance. We also acknowledge the financial support of Middlebury College and the National Science Foundation (SES 0617778). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} (2021) by the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association",
year = "2022",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1111/iere.12559",
language = "English",
volume = "63",
pages = "1109--1135",
journal = "International Economic Review",
issn = "0020-6598",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "3",
}