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Sex and Credit : Is There a Gender Bias in Microfinance?

Beck, Thorsten; Behr, P.; Madestam, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

This paper examines the effects of group identity in the credit market. Exploiting the quasirandom assignment of first-time borrowers to loan officers of a large Albanian lender, we test for own-gender bias in the loan officer-borrower match. We find that borrowers pay on average 29 basis points...

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Banking in sub-Saharan Africa : challenges and opportunities ; [the articles in this document were discussed at a roundtable event hosted by the EIB's Economics Department in Luxem...

Mlachila, Montfort (contributor); Dykes, Dennis (contributor) - 2013

In der Studie werden die makroökonomischen Bedingungen in afrikanischen Ländern südlich der Sahara erläutert und die aktuellen Entwicklungen und Trends im Bankensektor der Region im Überblick erörtert. Dabei gehen die Autoren auf die Herausforderungen und Chancen ein, die sich für den...

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Have banks caught corona? : effects of COVID on lending in the U.S.

Beck, Thorsten; Keil, Jan - In: The journal of corporate finance : contracting, … 72 (2022), pp. 1-29

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Follow the money : does the financial sector intermediate natural resource windfalls?

Beck, Thorsten; Poelhekke, Steven - In: Journal of international money and finance 130 (2023), pp. 1-17

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Follow the Money: Does the Financial Sector Intermediate Natural Resource Windfalls?

Beck, Thorsten; Poelhekke, Steven - 2017

The need to absorb windfalls gains and manage them appropriately has been discussed extensively by academics and policy makers alike. We explore the role of the financial sector in intermediating these windfalls. Controlling for the level of financial development, inflation, GDP growth and...

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Follow the money: Does the Financial Sector Intermediate Natural Resource Windfalls?

Beck, Thorsten; Poelhekke, Steven - 2017

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Digitalisation and banking: new risks and three scenarios for the European banking system of the future

Beck, Thorsten; Sánchez, Antonio

This article discusses the impact of digitalisation on the structure of the European banking system. The recent wave of … mostly from outside the incumbent banking system. How new financial service providers (fintechs and big techs) compete or … result, financial risks may be partially shifted away from the banking sector, while non-financial risks increase their …

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