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How Microfinance Associations add value - 2 Observations with references from the Association of MFIs of Uganda (AMFIU)
Schmidt, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
There are manifold reasons for microfinance association; the most common ones are advocacy, information, capacity building. However, the one unifying rationale of this organisational type appears to be wanting. The following paper makes two cases about the rationale of MF associations: 1. MF...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619775
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Social Network Capital, Economic Mobility and Poverty Traps
Chantarat, Sommarat; Barrett, Christopher B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper explores the role social network capital might play in facilitating poor agents’ escape from poverty traps. We model endogenous network formation among households heterogeneously endowed with both traditional and social network capital who make investment and technology choices over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790335
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Thought and Behavior Contagion in Capital Markets
Hirshleifer, David; Teoh, Siew Hong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Prevailing models of capital markets capture a limited form of social influence and information transmission, in which the beliefs and behavior of an investor affects others only through market price, information transmission and processing is simple (without thoughts and feelings), and there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621234
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Thought and Behavior Contagion in Capital Markets
Hirshleifer, David; Teoh, Siew Hong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Prevailing models of capital markets capture a limited form of social influence and information transmission, in which the beliefs and behavior of an investor affects others only through market price, information transmission and processing is simple (without thoughts and feelings), and there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621605
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Herd Behavior and Cascading in Capital Markets: A Review and Synthesis
Hirshleifer, David; Teoh, Siew Hong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
We review theory and evidence relating to herd behaviour, payoff and reputational interactions, social learning, and informational cascades in capital markets. We offer a simple taxonomy of effects, and evaluate how alternative theories may help explain evidence on the behavior of investors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619577
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Twitter Adoption in Congress: Who Tweets First?
Chi, Feng; Yang, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Our general objective is to characterize the recent and well publicized diffusion of Twitter among politicians in the United States 111th House of Representatives. Ultimately, Barrack Obama, Facebook and peers matter when it comes to the propensity and speed of Twitter adoption. A basic analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564506
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Wealthiest Is Not Always Healthiest: What Explains Differences in Child Mortality in West Africa?
Ickowitz, Amy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Ghana has the lowest under-five mortality rate in West Africa. Understanding why Ghana’s child mortality rate is lower … health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … examine relative child mortality risk between Ghana and each of its three immediate neighbors -- Burkina Faso, Côte d …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108728
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Options for Export Diversification and Faster Export Growth in Ghana
Chandra, Vandana; Osorio Rodarte, Israel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper discusses how Ghana’s path to a middle income status does not have to be paved with only manufactured … products. There are multiple paths and processed natural resources-based products are not necessarily a curse, and if Ghana … challenge for Ghana is to facilitate a comprehensive package of sector specific polices dedicated to fostering the technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472219
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Options for Export Diversification and Faster Export Growth in Ghana
Chandra, Vandana; Osorio-Rodarte, Israel - 2013
This paper discusses how Ghana’s path to a middle income status does not have to be paved with only manufactured … products. There are multiple paths and processed natural resources-based products are not necessarily a curse, and if Ghana … challenge for Ghana is to facilitate a comprehensive package of sector specific polices dedicated to fostering the technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157006
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E-participation: social capital and the Internet
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We add to the literature by conducting the first empirical assessment of how online networking affects two economically relevant aspects of social capital, i.e. trust and sociability, in a large and representative sample. We address endogeneity in online networking by exploiting technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107292