The Redistributive Role of Non-profit Organizations

Giovanni Cerulli

No 36, Documentos de trabajo - Analise Economica from IDEGA - Instituto Universitario de Estudios e Desenvolvemento de Galicia

Abstract: By starting from the consideration that non-profit organizations cover a significant redistributive function beside that of governmental agencies, the paper questions why government prefers to finance via transfers private entities (lucrative and non-lucrative) rather than produce these goods directly. By generalizing the Hansmann (1986) theory we propose a ìmake or buyî approach in which the choice among three different ownership regimes (governmental, non- profit and for-profit) providing services in public benefit-oriented sectors is affected not only by costs reduction (X-efficiency) but also by the level of transfers (degree of ìuniversalismî) decided at a political level.

Keywords: non-profit organizations; redistribution; property rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D6 L3 P14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2006
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