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The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya
Dupas, Pascaline - 2015
The welfare impact of expanding access to bank accounts depends on whether accounts crowd out pre-existing financial relationships, or whether private gains from accounts are shared within social networks. To study the effect of accounts on financial linkages, we provided free bank accounts to a...
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Value Chain Microfinance
Casaburi, Lorenzo; Willis, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the provision of financial services to small firms, consumers, and workers in developing countries as part of value chain relationships: value chain microfinance (VCMF). We first explore how VCMF can both overcome barriers to financial access - including asymmetric information,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468284
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Banking on the Boom, Tripped by the Bust : Banks and the World War I Agricultural Price Shock
Jaremski, Matthew S. - 2018
How do banks respond to asset booms? This paper examines i) how U.S. banks responded to the World War I farmland boom; ii) the impact of regulation; and iii) how bank closures exacerbated the post-war bust. The boom encouraged new bank formation and balance sheet expansion (especially by new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480811
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Sell Low and Buy High : Arbitrage and Local Price Effects in Kenyan Markets
Burke, Marshall - 2018
Large and regular seasonal price fluctuations in local grain markets appear to offer African farmers substantial inter-temporal arbitrage opportunities, but these opportunities remain largely unexploited: small-scale farmers are commonly observed to "sell low and buy high" rather than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453239
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Self-Selection into Credit Markets : Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori - 2014
We examine whether returns to capital are higher for farmers who borrow than for those who do not, a direct implication of many credit market models. We measure the difference in returns through a two-stage loan and grant experiment. We find large positive investment responses and returns to...
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Blended Finance
Flammer, Caroline; Giroux, Thomas; Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Blended finance---the use of public and philanthropic funding to crowd in private capital---is a potential way to finance a more sustainable world. While blended finance holds the promise of being catalytic in mobilizing vast amounts of private capital, little is known about this practice. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512141
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The value-added tax reform puzzle
Cai, Jing - 2011
"We explore the impact of a tax reform in some provinces of China which eliminated the value-added tax on some … induce labor-saving growth. This experiment has since been extended to the rest of China"--National Bureau of Economic …
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The Demand for Medical Care in Urban China
Mocan, H. Naci - 2000
China. It uses a data set that consists of detailed characteristics of 6407 urban households, a continuous measure of health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471094
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Federalism with and without Political Centralization : China versus Russia
Blanchard, Olivier - 2000
In China, local governments have actively contributed to the growth of new firms. In Russia, local governments have … question then is why this has not happened in China. We argue that the answer lies in the degree of political centralization … present in China, but not in Russia. Transition in China has taken place under the tight control of the communist party. As a …
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Government as a Discriminating Monopolist in the Financial Market : The Case of China
Gordon, Roger H. - 1999
To date, China has maintained a variety of restrictions on its financial markets. In addition to imposing capital … foreign stock markets, and the amount they can sell. China is unique in that foreigners pay much less than domestic investors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471684