imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises …. Using a field experiment involving agricultural microenterprises in Bangladesh, we estimated the impact of access to credit …) and technical efficiency changes. We found that relative to the baseline rice output per decimal, access to credit …

designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …

basis of individual performance and the other graded on the basis of the team performance. We find that students assigned to … socially connected teams perform significantly better than control students in both the team part and the individual part of …

In organizations, some team members are assigned to a team for a predefined short period of time, e.g., as they have a … temporary contract, while others are permanent members of the same team. In a laboratory experiment we analyze the cooperation … levels resulting from diverse teams, where some team members remain with a team and others are switching teams. Our results …

. Students were randomly matched in teams of three and in each team we randomly chose a leader with the task of coordinating the … work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven … by the higher performance of team members in female led teams rather than due to an improvement in the leader …

use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level …

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle … financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined … between loan and deposit rates. The effects of the credit shock tend to be highly persistent even without price rigidities and …