On the disclosure of ticket sales in charitable lotteries

D. Damianov; Ronald Peeters

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2016.11.012

On the disclosure of ticket sales in charitable lotteries

D. Damianov^*, Ronald Peeters^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Microeconomics & Public Economics

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Abstract

We show that a policy of disclosing the ticket sales during a fundraising lottery raises total revenue when there are more than two bettors. The optimal timing of the disclosure is when about half of the players have purchased lottery tickets. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	73-76
Number of pages	4
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	150
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.11.012
Publication status	Published - Jan 2017

JEL classifications

d44 - Auctions
d62 - Externalities
d64 - "Altruism; Philanthropy"

Keywords

Charity lotteries
Ticket sales
Disclosure policy
PUBLIC-GOODS
RENT-SEEKING

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