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A General Equilibrium Analysis of Inflation and Microfinance in Developing Countries
Müller, Daniel - 2013
This paper analyses the welfare effects of microfinance and inflation in developing countries. Therefore, we introduce … microfinance institution induces peer monitoring, which in turn enables entrepreneurship. Our main result is that there exists an … inflation threshold beyond which entrepreneurship collapses. We show that inflation affects the impact of microfinance on social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390685
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A general equilibrium analysis of inflation and microfinance in developing countries
Müller, Daniel - 2013
This paper analyses the welfare effects of microfinance and inflation in developing countries. Therefore, we introduce … microfinance institution induces peer monitoring, which in turn enables entrepreneurship. Our main result is that there exists an … inflation threshold beyond which entrepreneurship collapses. We show that inflation affects the impact of microfinance on social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772193
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Which households use banks?
Beck, Thorsten; Brown, Martin - 2011
This paper uses survey data for 29,000 households from 29 transition economies to explore how the use of banking services is related to household characteristics, bank ownership structure and the development of the financial infrastructure. At the household level we find that the holding of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640628
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Evolution of Monetary Policy Instruments in Russia
Baliño, Tomás - 2006
This paper analyzes the evolution of monetary policy in Russia, focusing on the period January 1992-December 1995. Special attention is given to the role of monetary policy instruments. Initially, policy was completely dominated by flows of credit from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781560
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Real estate market evolution and monetary policy in Kazakhstan
Ybrayev, Zhandos; Becker, Charles M. - 2019
This paper considers the link between macroeconomic policy and housing demand in an upper middle-income transition economy, Kazakhstan. The paper further explores price cointegration and contagion across cities. We find evidence that some parts of the housing market lead others but that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012125724
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Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Lojschova, Adriana; … - 2010
Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries from 1994 to 2001 we investigate households’ attitudes towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in countries with fewer mortgage holders relative to countries where a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640403
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Fed liftoff and subprime loan interest rates : evidence from the peer-to-peer lending market
Bertsch, Christoph; Hull, Isaiah; Zhang, Xin - 2016
On December 16th of 2015, the Fed initiated "liftoff," raising the federal funds rate range by 25 basis points and ending a 7-year regime of near-zero rates. We use a unique dataset of 640,000 loan-hour observations to measure the impact of liftoff on interest rates in the peer-to-peer lending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457389
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The Distribution of Debt Across Euro Area Countries : The Role of Individual Characteristics, Institutions and Credit Conditions
Bover, Olympia - 2013
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we present an up-to-date assessment of the differences across euro area countries in the distributions of various measures of debt conditional on household characteristics. We consider three different outcomes: the probability of holding debt, the amount...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071535
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The Distribution of Debt Across Euro Area Countries : The Role of Individual Characteristics, Institutions and Credit Conditions
Bover, Olympia - 2013
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we present an up-to-date assessment of the differences across euro area countries in the distributions of various measures of debt conditional on household characteristics. We consider three different outcomes: the probability of holding debt, the amount...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072321
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Consumption and Portfolio Rebalancing Response of Households to Monetary Policy : Evidence of the HANK Channel
Agarwal, Sumit - 2020
This paper tests one specific monetary transmission mechanism through households: portfolio rebalancing. We use a unique panel dataset of household's credit and debit card spending, ATM withdrawals, financial investments into risky assets such as mutual funds and equities, as well as bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835832