Commons problems present behavioral dilemmas, with tensions between individual and collective rationality. When users of a common-pool resource are not effectively excluded, the collective behavior of individuals pursuing their self-interests dissipates resource rents. We derive a non-parametric...

We study passive funds' conflicts of interest by examining their securities lending decisions. We show that passive funds' lending varies with the costs of lending for their families. Passive funds are less likely to lend a security if (i) active funds in their families have a sizable stake in...

Financial viability of community-based water-systems is a key element for the sustainable service provision to rural communities. Currently, high-rates of non-payments threaten the stability of the revenue-collection-systems set in many water-schemes of Sub-Saharan Africa. To improve...

This paper analyzes the linear and non-linear relationship between non-performing loans and bank profitability measured by the Net Interest Margin for a sample of 74 Middle Eastern and North African banks over the period of 2005-2020. We used the System Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM) as a...