Do Banks and Microfinance Institutions Compete? Microevidence from Madagascar

Pierrick Baraton and Florian Leon
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Pierrick Baraton: CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International - UCA [2017-2020] - Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper examines whether the loan strategy of a microfinance institution (MFI) is shaped by the entry of a bank. Specifically, we investigate whether the distance between a borrower of an MFI and the closest bank influences loan conditions provided by the MFI. We use an original panel data set of 32,374 loans granted to 14,834 borrowers provided by one of the largest MFIs in Madagascar between 2008 and 2014. We find that the closer a bank is located to a given MFI borrower, the larger the loan obtained and the less collateral required. We also find that the effect is stronger for clients that could be more easily caught by banks (i.e., large firms and clients without a previous relationship with the MFI).

Keywords: Bank; Microfinance; Competition; Africa; Madagascar (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-04-01
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Published in Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2021, 69 (3), pp.1031-1070. ⟨10.1086/704158⟩

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DOI: 10.1086/704158

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