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A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh

Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

In the next ten years, advocates of microfinance organizations (MFOs) will seek more than $20 billion to provide small loans to 100 million of the poorest families worldwide. In the United States, the newest federal budget proposes a 159-percent increase in the about $200 million spent per year...

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Aspects of Outreach: A Framework for the Discussion of the Social Benefits of Microfinance

Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

Wide agreement about the goal of microfinance--to improve the welfare of the poor--has not led to wide agreement about how best to achieve that goal. To aid discussion, I propose a framework for outreach--the social benefits of microfinance--in terms of six aspects: worth, cost, depth, breadth,...

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Core Many-to-one Matchings by Fixed-point Methods

Echenique, Federico; Oviedo, Jorge - EconWPA - 2003

We characterize the core many-to-one matchings as fixed points of a map. Our characterization gives an algorithm for finding core allocations; the algorithm is efficient and simple to implement. Our characterization does not require substitutable preferences, so it is separate from the structure...

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Stable Outcomes For Contract Choice Problems

Lahiri, Somdeb - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper, we consider the problem of choosing a set of multi-party contracts, where each coalition of agents has a non-empty finite set of feasible contracts to choose from. We call such problems, cntract choic problems. We provide conditions under which a contract choice problem has a...

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Dynamic Urban Models: Agglomeration and Growth

Berliant, Marcus; Wang, Ping - EconWPA - 2004

Theoretical models of urban growth are surveyed in a common framework. Exogenous growth models, where growth in some capital stock as a function of investment is assumed, are examined first. Then endogenous growth models, where use of some factor by a firm increases the productivity of other...

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Knowledge Exchange, Matching, and Agglomeration

Berliant, Marcus; III, Robert R. Reed; Wang, Ping - EconWPA - 2005

Despite wide recognition of their significant role in explaining sustained growth and economic development, uncompensated knowledge spillovers have not yet been fully modeled with a microeconomic foundation. This paper illustrates the exchange of knowledge as well as its consequences for...

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Does Temporary Agency Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?

Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2005

Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate …

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Heterogeneity and Learning in Labor Markets

Woodcock, Simon D. - EconWPA - 2005

first half of the paper, I present an equilibrium matching model where heterogeneous workers and firms learn about match … yields an assortative matching result that predicts a negative correlation between estimated person and firm effects, which … matching model implies a specific structure for the error covariance. I exploit this structure to test whether earnings …

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Search, Mismatch and Unemployment

Blázquez, Maite; Jansen, Marcel - EconWPA - 2005

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E-commerce, two-sided markets and info-mediation

Gaudeul, Alexandre; Jullien, Bruno - EconWPA - 2005

Participants in a market, buyers and sellers, may need the service of an intermediary who will put them into contact and give them information about their potential trading partner. The intermediary chooses what price it will charge to each side to have access to its service. It also chooses...

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