Group lending with heterogeneous types:

Group lending has been widely adopted in the past thirty years by many microfinance institutions as a means to mitigate information asymmetries when delivering credit to the poor. This paper proposes an empirical method to address the potential omitted-variable problem resulting from unobserved group types when modeling the repayment behavior of group members.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Gan, Li ; Hernandez, Manuel A. ; Liu, Yanyan
Institutions:	International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Subject:	group lending \| heterogenous types \| repayment \| social behaviour \| Credit \| loan repayment \| Modeling

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IFPRI discussion papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series IFPRI Discussion Paper Number 1268
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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