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Risk and Savings: a Taxonomy
Gunning, Jan Willem - 2008
-period model how the effect of risk on savings depends not only on preferences but also on the type of risk. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326046
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Risk and Savings: a Taxonomy
Gunning, Jan Willem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
-period model how the effect of risk on savings depends not only on preferences but also on the type of risk. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256937
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Financial inclusion and financial literacy in Kazakhstan
Kapparov, Kassymkhan - 2018
This paper examines the current situation concerning financial inclusion and financial literacy in Kazakhstan and future prospects. Since 2000, the financial sector has been developing rapidly, driven by petrodollars, which has led to higher financial inclusion. However, the improvement in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913465
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Financial inclusion, financial regulation, financial literacy, and financial education in the Kyrgyz Republic
Hasanova, Savia - 2018
worked well: the banking sector has rebounded, savings have been mobilized, and financial markets have started developing … need for consolidated efforts to include more people and businesses into financial activities, mobilize their savings, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868859
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Foreign direct investment and liberalization policies in Pakistan : an empirical analysis
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Hye, Qazi Muhammad Adnan - In: Cogent economics & finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-12
To enhance the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) and ultimately to increase the economic growth, the countries have implemented a variety of financial and trade liberalization policies in the last three decades. Pakistan also initiated such type of policies. This study makes an analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490551
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Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines
Ashraf, Nava; Karlan, Dean S.; Yin, Wesley - 2005
We designed a commitment savings product for a Philippine bank and implemented it using a randomized control … methodology. The savings product was intended for individuals who want to commit now to restrict access to their savings, and who … for commitment, were indeed significantly more likely to open the commitment savings account. After twelve months, average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369236
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Tying Odysseus to the mast : evidence from a commitment savings product in the Philippines
Ashraf, Nava; Karlan, Dean S.; Yin, Wesley - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003168206
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Tying Odysseus to the mast : evidence from a commitment savings product in the Philippines
Ashraf, Nava; Karlan, Dean; Yin, Wesley - 2005
We designed a commitment savings product for a Philippine bank and implemented it using a randomized control … methodology. The savings product was intended for individuals who want to commit now to restrict access to their savings, and who … for commitment, were indeed significantly more likely to open the commitment savings account. After twelve months, average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612543
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Practice what you preach: Microfinance business models and operational efficiency
Millone M.M.; Bos J.W.B. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2013
The microfinance sector is an example of a sector in which firms with different business models coexist. Next to pure for-profit microfinance institutions MFIs, the sector has room for non-profit organizations, and includes social for-profit firms that aim to maximize a double bot- tom line and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734892
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Household saving and labor informality : the case of Chile
Schclarek, Alfredo; Caggia, Mauricio - 2015
This paper compares the saving behavior of formal and informal workers and additionally provides a socioeconomic and financial characterization of informal workers in Chile. The paper uses the Financial Household Survey conducted by the Central Bank of Chile in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290974