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Good intentions pave the way to ... the local moneylender
Arnold, Lutz; Booker, Benedikt - 2012
Microborrowers may take usurious loans to repay a loan taken from a microfinance institution because of having …. Microfinance programs should strive at preventing such consequences of bounded rationality. -- microfinance ; hyperbolic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620576
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Investing into microfinance investment funds
Janda, Karel; Svárovská, Barbora - 2009
This paper investigates investment performance of microfinance investment funds. The examined funds have recorded lower … revealed that investment in microfinance investment funds that focus especially on debt instruments represents an attractive … investors with a particular interest in the socially responsible aspect of investment into microfinance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322191
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Investing into microfinance investment funds
Janda, Karel; Svárovská, Barbora - 2009
This paper investigates investment performance of microfinance investment funds. The examined funds have recorded lower … revealed that investment in microfinance investment funds that focus especially on debt instruments represents an attractive … investors with a particular interest in the socially responsible aspect of investment into microfinance. -- Microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929610
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Drivers of Investor Motivations for Impact Investments : The Case of Microfinance
Meyer, Julia - 2019
microfinance investment vehicle to analyze how different motives affect the demand for distinct sustainable investments. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869575
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Suitability of Microfinance as an Investment Option
Janda, Karel - 2012
This paper investigates investment performance of the most commercially developed microfinance investment funds and it … also includes a discussion of major economic characteristics of microfinance investments. When we analyze the relation … between microfinance funds' returns and the performance of stock and fixed income markets in developed and emerging economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098019
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Public Information and Inefficient Investment
Gala, Vito - 2012
In a general equilibrium economy with uninsurable aggregate liquidity shocks, we show that public information may trigger allocative inefficiency and liquidity crises. Entrepreneurs do not internalize the negative impact of their investment decisions on the equilibrium risk of liquidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116285
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Contractual restrictions and debt traps
Liu, Ernest; Roth, Benjamin N. - In: The review of financial studies 35 (2022) 3, pp. 1141-1182
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012878986
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015
This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510508
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015
This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505849
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Aggregate savings when individual income varies
Flodén, Martin (contributor) - 2005 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper examines aggregate savings in a general equilibrium model where infinitely lived households face volatile (and possibly uncertain) income paths, hold a risk-free asset, and face a liquidity constraint. I first show that the equilibrium capital stock in an economy without uncertainty,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002679474