State intervention and the (micro)credit market in developed countries: loan guarantee and business development services

Renaud Bourlès () and Anastasia Cozarenco ()

No 13-019, Working Papers CEB from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Abstract: We analyze in this paper how various forms of State intervention can impact the microcredit market in developed countries. Using a simple model where entrepreneurs borrow without collateral, we study the effect of different policies on microfinance institutions' lending behavior. We first introduce state intervention through the loan guarantee and show that, not surprisingly, it increases the number of entrepreneurs receiving a loan. However, after modeling business development services provided by the microfinance institution, we show that the government loan guarantee can have a counterproductive effect by reducing the number of entrepreneurs benefiting from such services. We therefore analyze an alternative policy: the subsidization of business development services by the State. We then provide a condition under which - for fixed government expenditures - such subsidies are more effective (in terms of outreach) than loan guarantees.

Keywords: microcredit; loan guarantee; business development services; microfinance institution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D45 D82 G14 G21 G38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 p.
Date: 2013-04-25
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Journal Article: State intervention and the microcredit market: the role of business development services (2014)
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Working Paper: State Intervention and the (Micro) Credit Market in Developed Countries: Loan Guarantee and Business Development Services (2013)
Working Paper: State Intervention and the (Micro)Credit Market in Developed Countries: Loan Guarantee and Business Development Services (2013)
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