While the academic world is still discussing if charting works or if it is more orless something like “Voodoo finance”, the practical orientated world has been usingtechnical analysis for decades. One argument of practitioners is that technical analysisis useful to “disciplinate” the...

This paper presents a model of the complete microcredit financing chain investor - MIV - MFI - micro-borrower, in which social-minded MIVs provide funds only to those MFIs which do not exploit their bargaining power towards micro-borrowers. The MFIs with the highest bargaining power do not use...