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The Economics of Lending with Joint Liability: Theory and Practice.
Ghatak, M.; Guinnane, T.W. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998
The study examines the effects of gender and credit constraints on rural students' advancement to secondary education …, which is arguably the major bottleneck in Thailand's education system. Credit constraints are measured indirectly through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005647054
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The economics of lending with joint liability: theory and practice
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Guinnane, Timothy - University <Chicago, Ill.> / Department of Economics; … - 1999
Institutions that rely on joint liability to facilitate lending to the poor have a long historyand are now a common feature of many developing countries. Economists have proposedseveral theories of joint-liability lending that stress various aspects of its informational andenforcement advantages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008911480
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Social Identity and Group Lending
Chatterjee, Prabirendra; Sarangi, Sudipta - 2004
The success of joint liability programs depends on nature and composition of borrowing groups. Group formation is a costly process and in our model these costs vary with the social identity of group partners. We show that risk heterogeneity in a borrowing group may arise due to the social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260680
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Group Lending under Costly Group Formation
Chatterjee, Prabirendra - 2010
The success of joint liability programs depends on nature and composition of borrowing groups. Group formation is a costly process and in our model these costs vary with the social identity of group partners. We show that risk heterogeneity in a borrowing group may arise due to the social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136891
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The Economics of Lending with Joint Liability: Theory and Practice
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Guinnane, Timothy W. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998
Institutions that rely on joint liability to facilitate lending to the poor have a long history and are now a common feature of many developing countries. Economists have proposed several theories of joint liability lending that stress various aspects of its informational and enforcement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357739
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Social Identity and Group Lending
Chatterjee, Prabirendra; Sarangi, Sudipta - 2005
The success of joint liability programs depends on nature and composition of borrowing groups. Group formation is a costly process and in our model these costs vary with the social identity of group partners. We show that risk heterogeneity in a borrowing group may arise due to the social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065119
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Social Identity and Group Lending
Chatterjee, Prabirendra; Sarangi, Sudipta - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
The success of joint liability programs depends on nature and composition of borrowing groups. Group formation is a costly process and in our model these costs vary with the social identity of group partners. We show that risk heterogeneity in a borrowing group may arise due to the social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963636
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The Economics of Lending with Joint Liability: Theory and Practice
Ghatak, Maitreesh; Guinnane, Timothy W. - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 1998
Institutions that rely on joint liability to facilitate lending to the poor have a long history and are now a common feature of many developing countries. Economists have proposed several theories of joint liability lending that stress various aspects of its informational and enforcement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005225472
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Episodes of Financial Deepening : Credit Booms or Growth Generators
Rousseau, Peter L. - 2016
of growth induced by financial deepening from crises induced by credit booms. Cross-country panel regressions with five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987647
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Finance, trade, man and machines : a new-Ricardian Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model
Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2023 - This revised draft, August 2022
outside the production process as a financial capital or credit as per the classical Ricardian wage fund framework. Stock of … credit or financial capital as past savings, finances employment and machines or capital goods used in the process of … much more than before. Introducing finance affects trade patterns with unemployment and especially with imperfect credit …
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