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Repayment and exclusion in a microfinance experiment [PDF]

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017
Microfinance groups often engage in a variety of collective activities not directly related to credit. We design a three-stage repayment game to examine how the existence of these ancillary activities affect repayment behavior and group attrition. In the first stage, the group borrows under joint liability, each member undertakes a risky project and ...
Jean-Marie Baland, Lata Gangadharan, Pushkar Maitra, Rohini Somanathan   +3 more
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FINANCING OF INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS [PDF]

Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2013
Financing (funding) is essentially the purchase of funds necessary for a business. This can be done from internal sources (company’s own funds) or external (borrowed funds).
RADU NICOLAE BĂLUNĂ, DANIEL GOAGĂRĂ
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Banking on cooperation: an evolutionary analysis of microfinance loan repayment behaviour

Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021
Microfinance is an economic development tool that provides loans to low-income borrowers to stimulate economic growth and reduce financial hardship. Lenders typically require joint liability, where multiple borrowers share the responsibility of repaying ...
Stefan Gehrig, Alex Mesoudi, Shakti Lamba   +2 more
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Supersanctions and sovereign debt repayment [PDF]

Journal of International Money and Finance, 2010
Abstract What might happen if a third-party entity had the power to implement fiscal reforms and/or punish sovereign debt defaulters? In contrast to recent history, extreme sanctions such as gunboat diplomacy and “fiscal house arrest” were used to punish debt defaulters during the period 1870–1913. We find that, after a “supersanction” was imposed, a
Kris James Mitchener, Marc D. Weidenmier
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Analysis and discussion on the pharmaceutical centralized procurement implementation — a case study of a large provincial hospital in China

Frontiers in Pharmacology
Unaffordable medical treatment and inflated drug prices have become a challenging issue for lawmakers worldwide. To reduce the financial burden and standardize the pharmaceutical market, the Chinese government has issued several detailed regulations ...
Jingjing Cao, Yuan Ren, Chenglong Zhao, Li Wang, Fengqin Fang   +4 more
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Physician‐Scientist Pipeline for Pediatric Rheumatology: The Current Landscape and Future Perspectives

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Over the past 50 years, the science of pediatric rheumatology has grown exponentially due to an expansion in the understanding of complex rheumatic conditions and a surge in novel targeted therapeutics. Physician‐scientists in the field of pediatric rheumatology have played major roles in these advancements that have improved the care of children ...
Ekemini A. Ogbu, Linda T. Hiraki, Mara L. Becker   +2 more
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Loan repayment performance and its determinants: evidence from micro and small enterprises operating in Dire-Dawa, Ethiopia

Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2023
Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) reach a large number of poor people who are not served by formal financial institutions and have been a prime element in the economic growth of countries like Ethiopia.
Yitbarek Kiros
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Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross, Wesley M. Zebrowski, Julia C. D. Valliant   +2 more
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The Repayment Structure of Agricultural Loans under a Full Repayment Constraint

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Abstract We investigate the optimal asset allocation and repayment strategy of an agricultural loan under a guaranteed repayment condition in a continuous-time setting. We propose two forms of the problem: an analytically solvable “separable” problem and a more realistic “nominal” problem that is investigated numerically.
Marcos Escobar-Anel, Gaurav Khemka, Zheng Xu   +2 more
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Impacts of Drought on Loan Repayment

Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2023
In order to stress test loan portfolios for the impacts of climate change, historical events need to be analyzed to create templates to stress test for future events. Using the 2012 Midwestern US drought as an example, this work creates a stress-testing template for future droughts.
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