This paper investigates the MFI performance and outreach relationship and examine whether big banking principles also apply to microfinance institutions (MFIs) and may help explaining the above-mentioned link. Unlike previous work analyzing the relationship between financial performance and...

Market segmentation characterized by price heterogeneity appears as a failure of classical view of market equilibrium. We suppose that an existence of specific asset pricing determines the wealth level of lenders. In microfinance, we look at the linkages between the welfare of lenders and market...