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Micro-Finance Decision Making : A Field Study of Prosocial Lending
Galak, Jeff - 2014
Prosocial lending in the form of micro-financing, small uncollateralized loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world, has recently emerged as a leading contender as a cure for world poverty. Our research investigates, in a field setting with real world and consequential data, the...
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Cultural differences and geography as determinants of online prosocial lending
Burtch, Gordon; Ghose, Anindya; Wattal, Sunil - In: Management information systems : mis quarterly 38 (2014) 3, pp. 773-794
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Does team competition increase pro-social lending? : evidence from online microfinance
Chen, Roy; Chen, Yan; Liu, Yang; Mei, Qiaozhu - 2014
We investigate the effects of team competition on pro-social lending activity on Kiva.org, the first microlending website to match lenders with entrepreneurs in developing countries. Using naturally occurring field data, we find that lenders who join teams contribute 1.2 more loans ($30–$42)...
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How to reconcile financial incentives and prosocial motivation of loan officers in microfinance?
De Pril, Julie; Godfroid, Cecile - 2017
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Microfinance and prosocial behaviors : experimental evidence of public-good contributions in Uganda
McCannon, Bryan; Rodriguez, Zachary - In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics : JITE 175 (2019) 2, pp. 228-257
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The effect of moral foundations in prosocial crowdfunding
Jancenelle, Vivien E; Javalgi, Rajshekhar G. - In: International small business journal : researching … 36 (2018) 8, pp. 932-951
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Identity, trust and altruism : an experiment on preferences and microfinance lending
Chen, Josie I.; Foster, Andrew D.; Putterman, Louis G. - 2017
preference over borrowers in micro-finance lending. We distinguish between perceptions of transaction-related factors, such as …
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The impact of microfinance on pro-social behaviors : experimental evidence of public goods contributions in Uganda
McCannon, Bryan; Rodriguez, Zachary - 2016
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Selective knowledge : reporting biases in microfinance data
Bauchet, Jonathan; Morduch, Jonathan - In: The credibility of microcredit : studies of impact and …, (pp. 52-82). 2013
institutions to answer. We explore the implications of voluntary reporting on knowledge about microfinance. We show systematic … biases in microfinance institutions’ choices about which survey to respond to and which specific indicators to report. The … analysis focuses on data for 2,072 microfinance institutions from MixMarket and the Microcredit Summit Campaign databases for …
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Identity, trust and altruism : an experiment on preferences and microfinance lending
Chen, Josie I.; Foster, Andrew D.; Putterman, Louis G. - In: European economic review : EER 120 (2019), pp. 1-24
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