Microfinance Games

Microfinance banks use group-based lending contracts to strengthen borrowers' incentives for diligence, but the contracts are vulnerable to free-riding and collusion. We systematically unpack microfinance mechanisms through ten experimental games played in an experimental economics laboratory i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gine, Xavier, Jakiela, Pamela, Karlan, Dean, Morduch, Jonathan
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5778