Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (RoSCAs) is a widely spread informal financial institution in developing … individuals' decisions to join RoSCAs. The paper employs an incentivized experiment to elicit impatience and a questionnaire to …

Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (RoSCAs) is a widely spread informal financial institution in developing … individuals' decisions to join RoSCAs. The paper employs an incentivized experiment to elicit impatience and a questionnaire to …

Savings and Credit Associations (Roscas), a popular group-based financial institution world-wide, in the aftermath of the 2004 …

Savings and Credit Associations (Roscas), a popular group-based financial institution world-wide, in the aftermath of the 2004 …

Much of the existing literature on the use of informal credit arrangements such as ROSCAs (Rotating and Credit Saving … mechanisms. As economic development proceeds, formal institutions might therefore be expected to displace ROSCAs. We show, using … household data for Ethiopia, that in fact use of formal institutions and ROSCAs can co-exist, even in the same household. We …

Much of the existing literature on the use of informal credit arrangements such as ROSCAs (Rotating and Credit Saving … mechanisms. As economic development proceeds, formal institutions might therefore be expected to displace ROSCAs. We show, using … household data for Ethiopia, that in fact use of formal institutions and ROSCAs can co-exist, even in the same household. We …

savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) constitute successful experiences of collective action within the informal financial … characteristics of ROSCAs. These results provide new evidence on the role of social capital for fostering collective action and offer …

Much of the existing literature on the use of informal credit arrangements such as ROSCAs (Rotating and Credit Saving … mechanisms. As economic development proceeds, formal institutions might therefore be expected to displace ROSCAs. We show, using … household data for Ethiopia, that in fact use of formal institutions and ROSCAs can co-exist, even in the same household. We …