Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Author "Exley, Christine"

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    • Excusing Selfishness in Charitable Giving: The Role of Risk 

      Exley, Christine Linman (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016)
      Decisions involving charitable giving often occur under the shadow of risk. A common finding is that potential donors give less when there is greater risk that their donation will have less impact. While this behavior could ...

    • Nonprofits in Good Times and Bad Times 

      Exley, Christine; Lehr, Nils H.; Terry, Stephen J. (University of Chicago Press, 2023-02-01)
      Need fluctuates over the business cycle. We conduct a survey revealing a desire for nonprofit activities to countercyclically expand during downturns. We then demonstrate, using comprehensive U.S. nonprofit data drawn from ...

    • Observability Increases the Demand for Commitment Devices 

      Exley, Christine Linman; Naecker, Jeffrey K. (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2017)
      Previous research often interprets the choice to restrict one’s future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time inconsistency. We propose an additional mechanism that may contribute to the demand for commitment ...