In much of Asia, small and medium-sized enterprises that are owned or led by women (WSMEs) face more difficulties accessing credit than those owned or led by men. This raises the question of how to change employee behavior within lending institutions to extend credit to WSME borrowers. There is...

In much of Asia, small and medium-sized enterprises that are owned or led by women (WSMEs) face more difficulties accessing credit than those owned or led by men. This raises the question of how to change employee behavior within lending institutions to extend credit to WSME borrowers. There is...

We study a situation where physicians differing in their degree of altruism exert a diagnostic effort before deciding whether to test patients to determine the most appropriate treatment. The diagnostic effort generates an imperfect private signal of the patient's type, while the test is...