Robertas Zubrickas

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study donation-based crowdfunding for threshold public good provision and propose an extension with refund bonuses aimed at resolving the problems of equilibrium coordination and free-riding.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce refund bonuses into the provision point mechanism, where each contributor receives not only his contribution refunded but also a refund bonus the size of which is proportional to the contribution made.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined asymmetric information about migrant earnings and its implications for remittance behavior using a sample of Indian households with husbands working overseas in Qatar and found that wives underreport their husbands' income and underreporting is more prevalent in households with higher earning migrants.

TL;DR: Empirically investigate the extension of the provision point mechanism as a method of funding threshold public goods is extended with refund bonuses by testing its properties on allocative and distributive eciency, equilibrium coordination, and invariance to in equilibrium.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a direct test of the impact of altruism on remittances by eliciting the propensity to share with others from their responses in a dictator game and use it as a proxy for altruism.