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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 …

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Commitment, Flexibility, and Optimal Screening of Time Inconsistency

Galperti, Simone - 2015

This paper develops a theory of optimal provision of commitment devices to people who value both commitment and flexibility, and whose preferences differ in the degree of time inconsistency. If time inconsistency is observable, both a planner and a monopolist provide devices that help each...

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Contract Structure, Risk Sharing and Investment Choice

Fischer, Greg - 2011

Few microfinance-funded businesses grow beyond subsistence entrepreneurship. This paper considers one possible … explanation: that the structure of existing microfinance contracts may discourage risky but high-expected return investments. To … microfinance institution in India. The experiments confirm the theoretical predictions that joint liability creates two …

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Universalizing complete access to finance: Key conceptual issues

Rai, Suyash; Ananth, Bindu; Mor, Nachiket - 2010

In this paper, we present two stylized models of the financial system. We make the case that in order to realize the potential of a well-functioning complete financial market, financial system designers and financial service providers will need to think about ways to deliver financial...

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Credit Constraints : The Effect of Race/Ethnic Group

Hanna, Sherman D. - 2017

About 20% of U.S. households are credit constrained. This research analyzes credit constraints among those who have applied for credit and controls for the effects of past credit behavior on being credit constrained. It is the first to identify the impact on being credit constrained of being...

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The Efficiency of Savings-Linked Relationship Lending for Housing Finance

Kirsch, Steffen - 2019

We characterize Contractual Saving for Housing (CSH), a widespread and important product of household housing finance in Continental Europe, as relationship lending that is based on information production about borrowers in preceding saving relationships. In a multi-period partial equilibrium...

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Universalizing Complete Access to Finance : Key Conceptual Issues

Rai, Suyash - 2010

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Strategic Behavior in Capital Markets and Asset Prices

Obreja, Iulian - 2010

In this paper we study the impact of the degree of concentration of a financial system on the aggregate demand for housing as well as the feedback effect of the size of the mortgage loan market on lenders' profits, internal capital accumulation, loan losses and potential bailouts. In a general...

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Household Debt : Facts, Puzzles, Theories, and Policies

Zinman, Jonathan - 2014

Borrowing decisions affect most households, with large stakes and implications for subfields as varied as macroeconomics and industrial organization. I review theoretical and empirical work on household debt: its prevalence, level, growth, and composition, as well as various measures of consumer...

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The Dynamical Mechanism for SMEs Evolution Under the Hologram Approach

Yuan, George Xianzhi - 2019

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