NGO's in Bangladesh: Platforms in a Two-Sided Market

摘要

Research has shown that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can substitute for the local provision of goods in developing economies (Frazer, The Economic Journal, 2008). One explanation for this substitution is that as platforms in a two-sided market, NGOs allocate some of the costs of aid provision to donors, allowing NGOs to provide aid at a price below the competitive market price. Local one-sided firms are then not able to compete with the two-sided NGOs. My paper expands the literature by testing NGOs' organizational structure as two-sided platforms in order to explore NGOs' pricing decisions for services to aid recipients.