Research on microcredit is now two decades old. There has been enormous progress in
understanding both what microcredit does and how. Yet a lot of what we have learned has …

Over the last few decades behavioral economics has revolutionized the discipline. It has
done so by putting the human back into economics, by recognizing that people sometimes …

This study delves into the contemporary landscape of potential financial inclusion in
investment decision-making, leveraging bibliometric research methods. Analyzing 161 …

Group liability in microcredit purports to improve repayment rates through peer screening,
monitoring, and enforcement. However, it may create excessive pressure, and discourage …

An important question to microfinance is the relevance of existing social capital in target
communities to the performance of group lending. This research presents evidence from …

Preface specifically, for thinking about why poor people stay poor—questions that, at some
level, go back to Adam Smith's inquiry into the wealth and poverty of nations. Microfinance …

This paper uses a new data source, online social lending (aka peer-to-peer lending), to help
answer the question of what impact borrower-lender information asymmetries have on …

Few microfinance‐funded businesses grow beyond subsistence entrepreneurship. This
paper considers one possible explanation: that the structure of existing microfinance …

Microfinance has been identified as an important tool in increasing the productivity of the
poor and in aiding economic development. However, a large proportion of the poor are …

Research into common pool resources from the field and in the laboratory has provided a
series of insights for the successful management of such resources. The consequences of …