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Lending to the poor is expensive due to high screening, monitoring, and enforcement costs. Group lending advocates believe lenders overcome this by harnessing social connections. Using data from FINCA-Peru, I exploit a quasi-random group formation process to find evidence of peers successfully...
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In recent years, microfinance institutions have expanded into group lending with individual liability, leaving out the … repay a group loan to safeguard their reputation. We show that the introduction of group loans with individual liability … importance to their reputation will select into individual liability loans, causing default rates and interest rates to rise for …
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Lending to the poor is expensive due to high screening, monitoring, and enforcement costs. Group lending advocates believe lenders overcome this by harnessing social connections. Using data from FINCA-Peru, I exploit a quasi-random group formation process to find evidence of peers successfully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369123
Group liability in microcredit purports to improve repayment rates through peer screening, monitoring, and enforcement …
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This paper investigates how gender disparities affect the time to repay group micro-finance loans using survival … micro-finance loan borrowers to repay. We use a large sample of bank microfinance group loans from August 2017 to August …
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Group liability is often portrayed as the key innovation that led to the explosion of the microcredit movement, which … the treatment groups. -- microfinance ; group lending ; group liability ; joint liability ; social capital …
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Group liability in microcredit purports to improve repayment rates through peer screening, monitoring, and enforcement … groups created after two years in the expansion areas. -- Microfinance ; group lending ; group liability ; joint liability …
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Limited borrower information may create targeting distortions in credit markets. Community-based lending programs may reduce these distortions by exploiting information transmitted in local networks, but connections may create asymmetries in power. This paper analyzes how local leaders balance...
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Group liability in microcredit purports to improve repayment rates through peer screening, monitoring, and enforcement …
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We study a unique microcredit model with zero interest rate and voluntary contributions, used by Akhuwat, a … microfinance organization operating in Pakistan since 2001. Borrowers are encouraged to give any amount they wish to the …
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