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access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile … friends. We work with two cross-randomized interventions. The first treatment gave access to a remunerated mobile savings … primary farmer counterparts. We find that the remunerated mobile savings account raised mobile savings, but only while …
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Recent empirical work has shown that current account deficits have been associated with lower growth in developing countries while they have been associated with higher growth in developed countries. This paper shows that this can be rationalized in an environment where firms face (i)...
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analyse the effect of financial education on savings and investment decision-making for a broad set of financial assets. The …
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This study analyzes the interactive effects of migrant remittances and financial development on savings-investment gap … remittances reduce savings-investment gap in the long run. The gap is further reduced when the individual effect of financial … higher private sector credit widened the savings-investment gap only in the short-run. The study suggests the need for a …
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I study how different types of subsidization affect investment decisions in a laboratory experiment. Even though the expected pro t is identical in all treatments, I find highly significant differences between them. In particular, when investment alternatives get subsidized with tax credits the...
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