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Microfinance, Moneylenders, and Economic Shocks : An Assessment of the Bangladesh Experience
Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad - 2021
two decades. Most of the studies on Bangladesh focus on the poverty and women’s empowerment impacts of microfinance. We … facing adverse shocks. The available evidence suggests that the microfinance in Bangladesh helped free many households from …The effectiveness of microfinance in improving the economic lives of the poor has been under extensive scrutiny in last …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310452
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Follow the money : methods for identifying consumption and investment responses to a liquidity shock
Karlan, Dean; Osman, Adam; Zinman, Jonathan - 2013
Identifying the impacts of liquidity shocks on spending decisions is difficult methodologically but important for theory, practice, and policy. Using seven different methods on microenterprise loan applicants, we find striking results. Borrowers report uses of loan proceeds strategically, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010202715
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Follow the Money : Methods for Identifying Consumption and Investment Responses to a Liquidity Shock
Karlan, Dean S. - 2013
Identifying the impacts of liquidity shocks on spending decisions is difficult methodologically but important for theory, practice, and policy. Using seven different methods on microenterprise loan applicants, we find striking results. Borrowers report uses of loan proceeds strategically, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072803
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The impact of shocks on gender-differentiated asset dynamics in Bangladesh
Rakib, Muntaha; Matz, Julia Anna - 2014
jointly by both of them in response to shocks in rural agricultural households in Bangladesh with the help of detailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010390099
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The Impact of Shocks on Gender-Differentiated Asset Dynamics in Bangladesh
Rakib, Muntaha - 2014
jointly by both of them in response to shocks in rural agricultural households in Bangladesh with the help of detailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048857
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The Impact of Shocks on Gender-Differentiated Asset Dynamics in Bangladesh
Rakib, Muntaha - 2014
jointly by both of them in response to shocks in rural agricultural households in Bangladesh with the help of detailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050399
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Household Shocks and Consumption Smoothing : Evidence From Northern Bangladesh
Bakhtiar, M. Mehrab; Rabbani, Atonu - 2022
Poor households in rural Bangladesh often face concurring idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks, which have adverse … Bangladesh. We estimate the effects of adverse health shocks on the consumption levels of poor households in a multi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293683
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Effects of US quantitative easing on emerging market economies
Bhattarai, Saroj; Chatterjee, Arpita; Park, Woong-yong - 2018
We estimate international spillover effects of US Quantitative Easing (QE) on emerging market economies (EMEs). Using a Bayesian VAR on monthly US macroeconomic and financial data, we first identify the US QE shock. The identified US QE shock is then used in a monthly Bayesian panel VAR for EMEs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786694
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Temporary and persistent fiscal policy shocks
Sola, Sergio - 2013 - This draft: June 2012
Abstract This paper conducts an empirical investigation of the effects of temporary versus persistent fiscal policy shocks. Using data from the US I show that short lived fiscal expansions have a positive effect on output and consumption; while persistent fiscal shocks generate negative effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009712477
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The Industrial Impact of Economic Uncertainty Shocks in Australia
Burrell, Hamish - 2019
This study establishes the first empirical evidence of the impact of economic uncertainty shocks on industry-level investment, output and employment in Australia. We find the Construction and Financial and Insurance Services industries are the most impacted by a shock to economic uncertainty....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857770