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Borrower runs [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Development Economics, 2009
Microfinance institutions and other lenders in developing countries rely on the promise of future loans to induce repayment. However, if borrowers expect that others will default, and so loans will no longer be available in the future, then they will default as well. We refer to such contagion as a borrower run.
Philip Bond, Ashok Rai
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Channels in cellular systems: To borrow or not to borrow...

ZOR Zeitschrift f�r Operations Research Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 1994
Summary: This note develops an analytic model to answer the question whether it is advantageous to borrow a channel in cellular mobile communications systems. Such questions arise dynamically, whenever there is a pending call which will be blocked unless a channel is borrowed.
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Borrowed Names for Borrowed Things?

Antiquity, 1970
In discussing contemporary wool production the Elder Pliny comments (NH, VIII, 192): 'oddments of wool from the fullers" coppers are used for stuffing bolsters-an invention of the Gauls, I think; at any rate, the process is distinguished by Gallic terms today.'
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Borrowers and Borrowing

1999
The Jubilee Centre survey of individuals with multiple debt problems included in-depth interviews. One focus of the interviews was how money problems had arisen. The findings are summarized in Table 3.1.
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On morphological borrowing

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2018
Abstract For virtually as long as linguists have studied contact‐induced grammatical change, the borrowing of morphological formatives and patterns has been considered a relatively infrequent phenomenon—a view which is reflected in all well‐known borrowability scales.
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Do Riskier Borrowers Borrow More?

Real Estate Economics, 2004
Conventional wisdom in the mortgage industry holds that loan‐to‐value (LTV) ratios are positively correlated with mortgage default rates. However, not all empirical studies of mortgage loan performance support this view. This paper offers a theoretical signaling model of why the correlation between LTV ratios and default risk is contingent upon the ...
David M. Harrison   +2 more
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