Purpose: The purpose of this work is to experimentally measure trust and study its relationship to group loan allocation within a community bank. Design/methodology/approach: An artefactual field experiment is run to capture a measure of trust that mimics aspects of trusting behavior in a...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of loans provided by Benin's largest microlender. Design/methodology/approach: A pipeline design and matching techniques contribute for identifying the causal effect. The loan treatment considered is loan experience. It includes...