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Women Leaders and Social Performance: Evidence from Financial Cooperatives in Senegal
Szafarz, Ariane; Périlleux, Anaïs - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2014
How do women leaders such as board members and top managers influence the social performance of organizations? This paper addresses the issue by exploiting a unique database released by a Senegalese network of 36 financial cooperatives sharing identical governance characteristics and placed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010968979
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Discrimination in Microfinance: The Role of Credit Officers
Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Szafarz, Ariane; Labie, Marc - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2009
This paper studies how high-powered incentives may affect credit officers’ discriminatory practices in microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000283
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Microfinance and Gender : Is There a Glass Ceiling on Loan Size?
Agier, Isabelle - 2013
Most of the customers of microfinance institutions are female. But do men and women benefit from the same credit … comprising 34,000 loan applications from a Brazilian microfinance institution. The model determines the optimal loan size fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094965
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Credit Officers and Loan Granting in Microfinance : Brazilian Evidence
Agier, Isabelle - 2014
In microcredit institutions, credit officers play a prominent role in loan granting decisions. Indeed, they collect field data, meet with the applicants, and provide personal recommendations to the credit committee that takes the final decisions (loan approval/denial, and loan size). This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068852
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Aid volatility and social performance in microfinance
D'Espallier, Bert; Hudon, Marek; Szafarz, Ariane - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 46 (2017) 1, pp. 116-140
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637399
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Subjectivity in Credit Allocation to Micro-Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Brazil
Szafarz, Ariane; Agier, Isabelle - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2011
detailed database from a Brazilian microfinance institution. Loan officers collect field data, meet with applicants, and make …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019922
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Subjectivity in Credit Allocation to Micro-Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Brazil
Szafarz, Ariane; Agier, Isabelle - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2013
detailed database from a Brazilian microfinance institution. The loan officers collect field data, meet with applicants, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099512
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Women Leaders and Social Performance : Evidence from Financial Cooperatives in Senegal
Périlleux, Anaïs - 2017
How do women leaders such as board members and top managers influence the social performance of organizations? This paper addresses the question by exploiting a unique database from a Senegalese network of 36 financial cooperatives. We scrutinize the loan-granting decisions, made jointly by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974288
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Microfinance in the North : Where Do We Stand?
Cozarenco, Anastasia - 2018
The microfinance movement reached developed countries in the late 1980s and it is still a niche market. This chapter … starts with a brief history of microfinance in the North. Next, it develops a supply-side perspective and pays special … institutions to reach scale and increase the range of microfinance products they supply. Last, this chapter opens avenues for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907108
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Microcredit in Developed Countries : Unexpected Consequences of Loan-Size Ceilings
Cozarenco, Anastasia - 2013
In most developed countries, regulators have imposed loan-size ceilings to subsidized microfinance institutions (MFIs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081589