We examine the market reaction to charitable pledges by individual blockholders of public firms. As this philanthropy …

This paper studies philanthropy by multinational enterprises (MNEs) during institutional disruptions—the sudden and … poverty-gap avoidance. They offer evidence that company philanthropy in the aftermath of institutional disruptions may deviate … from predicted behavior under stable conditions. Particularly, the findings contest the expectation that philanthropy rises …

the formation of microfinance institutions in Ireland. The focus of this study is the expansion of a hybrid organisational … understand Irish microfinance in the early nineteenth century, a period of profound socio-economic and socio-religious change. It … seeks to explain the factors that motivated the establishment and de-establishment of microfinance institutions amidst this …

microfinance models of lending offer considerably lower costs of borrowing than those in regular models of direct lending by banks …. The study opines that microfinance model of lending can provide cost-efficient model of financial intermediation for …

though they relax financing constraints. We relate this insight to the limited success of group-based microfinance in … loans ; social ties ; altruism ; peer-to-peer lending ; small business ; entrepreneurial finance ; microfinance ; missing …

of microfinance. A binomial descriptive content analysis investigates the incidence of this so-called ‘green microfinance …' in a sample of forty microfinance institutions (MFIs) whose lending criteria were publicly available. We conclude that … although there might be several rationales to support the proliferation of green microfinance very few MFIs are embedding such …