Group lending with heterogeneous types

Li Gan (), Manuel Hernandez and Yanyan Liu ()

No 1268, IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Group lending has been widely adopted in the past thirty years by many microfinance institutions as a means to mitigate information asymmetries when delivering credit to the poor. This paper proposes an empirical method to address the potential omitted-variable problem resulting from unobserved group types when modeling the repayment behavior of group members.

Keywords: group lending; heterogenous types; repayment; social behaviour; Credit; loan repayment; Modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban, nep-cta, nep-mfd and nep-spo
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Journal Article: GROUP LENDING WITH HETEROGENEOUS TYPES (2018)
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