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From boom to bust : how different has microfinance been from traditional banking?
Wagner, Charlotte - 2010
This paper presents an in-depth analysis of developments in the microfinance sector before and after the Lehman … developing countries. The findings indicate that microfinance has been part of the same credit boom observed in the traditional … capital. This raises the question whether the crisis resilience the microfinance sector has shown in the past remains a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758753
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Measurement and determinants of access to loans
Hainz, Christa; Nabokin, Tatjana - 2013
Measuring and identifying financial constraints represents an important challenge in empirical studies. Due to data limitations perception-based indicators or approximations of access to finance by the usage of finance are often used, disregarding firm-specific differences in the demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009728261
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A socioeconomic approach to the profile of microcredit holders from the Hispanic minority in the USA
Cruz Rambaud, Salvador; López Pascual, Joaquín; … - In: Financial innovation : FIN 9 (2023) 1, pp. 1-25
The subject of this study is the microcredit market in the USA, more specifically in Florida. The justification for choosing this specific state is the massive presence of the Hispanic population. This will facilitate a generalization of the obtained results to the microcredit market in Latin...
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Reverse mortgage participation in the United States : evidence from a national study
Chatterjee, Swarn - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-10
This paper uses the most recent wave of a nationally representative dataset to examine the factors associated with elderly homeowners' decision to obtain reverse mortgage loans. The findings of this study suggest that very few homeowners participated in the reverse mortgage market, and...
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The use of behavioral finance in the wealth management process
Opolski, Krzysztof; Potocki, Tomasz - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 4, pp. 55-65
The economic theories taking into consideration human behavior and based on the achievements of psychology, sociology, anthropology have been evolving at a blistering pace over the last decade. Owing to that, the behavioral finance has become one of the fastest developing academic areas focused...
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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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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth
Heer, Burkhard (contributor); Irmen, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003791799
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012
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/10009688539
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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth
Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - 2008 - This Version: November 16, 2008
We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779148