Browsing by Subject "microfinance"

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    • Behavioral Economics and Microfinance: A Study of Risk Preferences in Rural South Africa 
      Leiberman, Eric M. (Vanderbilt University, 2011-04-05)
      When deciding between safe and risky prospects, human decision-makers exhibit a number of framing effects. One of the most prominent of these effects, the reflection effect, is the tendency for decision makers to evaluate ...
    • Can Micro-Credit Bring Development? 
      Ahlin, Christian; Jiang, Neville (Vanderbilt University, 2005)
      We examine the long-run effects of micro-credit on development in an occupational choice model very similar to Banerjee and Newman (JPE, 1993). Micro-credit is modeled as a pure improvement in the credit market that opens ...
    • Micro-Offsets and Macro-Transformation 
      Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Ackerly, Brooke A.; Forster, Fred E. (Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2009)
      We have been asked to examine climate change justice by discussing the methods of allocating the costs of addressing climate change among nations. Our analysis suggests that climate and justice goals cannot be achieved by ...