Department of Economics

University of Warwick

Coventry

CV4 7AL

United Kingdom

Phone: (+44)(0) 2476 523742

Email: k.scharf at warwick.ac.uk

Office Hours Term 1: Mondays from 1-3pm or by appointment

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Recent Policy Paper

"Gift Aid Donor Research," joint with Sarah Smith (Bristol).

Working Papers

"Wealthy donors and economies of scale in the charitable sector." (with Sarah Sandford). October 2011.

"Biased pro-social motivation and organisation design." October 2011.

"Private provision of public goods and information diffusion in social groups." CEPR DP 8607. October 2011.

"Scale economies in nonprofit provision, technology adoption and entry." September 2011.

"Rational inattention to subsidies for charitable contributions," (with Sarah Smith). July 2011. This version is a combination of CEPR DP 7760, 2010 and IFS WP 07/2010 (joint with Sarah Smith).

"Public funding of charities and competitive charity selection," CEPR DP 7937, 2010.

"Entry and fixed costs in charitable sectors," CEPR DP 7978, 2010.

"Taxation and property rights," mimeo, University of Warwick, (with Carlo Perroni), 2007. This is a revision of "Viable tax constitutions" Warwick Economic Research Paper no. 683, 2003 pdf. A later revision appears as CEPR DP 4210, 2004. pdf

Teaching 2011/2012

EC331 (Research in Applied Economics)

EC335 (Managerial Economics)

EC981 (Topics in Public Economics)