caa a22 4500 475841255 CHVBK 20180406123902.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005092819278 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005092819278 Agency Costs in Environmental Not-For-Profits [Elektronische Daten] [Julie Hewitt, Daniel Brown] We examine the behavior of not-for-profits using utility maximization. This leads to testable hypotheses regarding the costs of agency associated with the activities of not-for-profits. Our tests are similar to those previously employed regarding not-for-profit objectives, but our interpretation is different. Our empirical test uses data on environmental groups. Unlike previous studies biased toward a finding of service maximization, we account for endogenous explanatory variables. A weak statement of our results is that managers of environmental groups derive positive marginal utility from expenditures for purposes other than providing services. There may also be empirical support for a stronger conclusion. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Hewitt Julie Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University, 306 Linfield Hall, 59717-2920, Bozeman, MT, U.S.A. aut Brown Daniel School of Law, University of Oregon, 97403-1284, Eugene, OR, U.S.A. aut Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 103/1-2(2000-04-01), 163-183 0048-5829 103:1-2<163 2000 103 11127 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005092819278 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005092819278 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hewitt Julie Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University, 306 Linfield Hall, 59717-2920, Bozeman, MT, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brown Daniel School of Law, University of Oregon, 97403-1284, Eugene, OR, U.S.A aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 103/1-2(2000-04-01), 163-183 0048-5829 103:1-2<163 2000 103 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer