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This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial inclusion outcomes in rural Peru. Using a cluster randomized control trial and relying on both survey and administrative records, we investigate the impact of savings groups after more...

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Who Will Bear the Brunt of Lockdown Policies? Evidence from Tele-Workability Measures Across Countries

Brussevich, Mariya - 2020

Lockdowns imposed around the world to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic arehaving a differential impact on economic activity and jobs. This paper presents a new indexof the feasibility to work from home to investigate what types of jobs are most at risk. Weestimate that over 97.3...

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Osei, Robert Darko; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The investment decisions of small‐scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana...

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012

The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in...

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The effects of liberalization and deregulation on the performance of financial institutions: The case of the German life insurance market

Trigo Gamarra, Lucinda - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Rostock - 2008

markets of the member states aiming at an increased efficiency of the European insurance markets. We analyze to which extent … changes in technical cost and profit efficiency levels since the liberalization, as well as a measurement of technological … change. Technical cost efficiency levels are estimated by applying a stochastic 'true' fixed effects distance frontier …

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Osei, Robert Darko; … - Economics Department, Yale University - 2012

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - 2012

The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by the farmers’ financial environment. Binding credit-market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern...

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WTO and the Chinese Insurance Industry

Leverty, J. Tyler; Lin, Yijia; Zhou, Hao - 2013

structural improvement in efficiency after WTO accession, but geographic and product market restrictions placed on foreign firms …

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert Darko; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; … - 2013

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Resident Rights and Responsibilities in Virginia's Continuing Care Retirement Communities : Building Trust and Stronger Communities

Pearson, Katherine C. - 2012

At the invitation of Virginia Senator George Barker, Professor Pearson testified before the Commonwealth of Virginia, Division of Legislative Service, Virginia Housing Commission for a working group on continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs). In her oral and written testimony, she...

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