| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w21066
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 21066
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| Donor Governance and Financial Management in Prominent U.S. Art Museums |
| David Yermack
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| 发表日期 | 2015-04-06
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| 出版年 | 2015
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | I study “donor governance,” which occurs when contributors to non-profit firms place restrictions on their gifts to limit the discretion of managers. In a study of U.S. art museums, I find that this practice has grown significantly in recent years, and it represents the largest source of permanent capital in the industry. When donor restrictions are strong, museums shift their cost structures away from administration and toward program services, and they exhibit very high savings rates, retaining in their endowments 45 cents of each incremental dollar donated. Retention rates are near zero for cash generated from other activities. Restricted donations appear to stabilize non-profits and significantly influence their activities, but they reduce management flexibility and may contribute to lower profit margins. Rising donor governance in U.S. art museums may represent a reaction by contributors to the industry’s high rates of financial distress, weak boards of trustees, and large private benefits of control enjoyed by managers. |
| 主题 | Financial Economics
; Corporate Finance
; Industrial Organization
; Nonprofits
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21066
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578740
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David Yermack. Donor Governance and Financial Management in Prominent U.S. Art Museums. 2015.
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