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Determinants of the Non‐profit Sector Size: An Empirical Analysis in Spain
Author(s) -
Marcuello Carmen
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
annals of public and cooperative economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.526
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-8292
pISSN - 1370-4788
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8292.00078
Subject(s) - profit (economics) , economics , supply and demand , argument (complex analysis) , order (exchange) , microeconomics , industrial organization , finance , biochemistry , chemistry
The economic literature has proposed different explanations about the role and existence of the non‐profit organizations in the economy. These theories can be divided into two types: demand theories and supply theories. However, Ben‐Ner and Van Hoomissen (1991, 1992) suggested that, in some cases, demand and supply factors operate simultaneously and it is particularly difficult to separate them. Thus, it is necessary to consider these two factors in the study of the determinants that have influence in the existence of non‐profit organizations. In this paper, this argument is considered in order to analyse the demand and supply determinants of the non‐profit organizations’ development in Catalonia, a Spanish region.