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What determines enterprise borrowing from Self Help Groups? A Predictive Assessment using Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms

Dasgupta, Madhura; Gupta, Samarth - 2021

Despite several advantages of borrowing from Self Help Groups (SHGs), why do many enterprises in India, still rely on informal lenders (MoSPI, 2020)? To answer this question, we develop a novel enterprise-village matched dataset and use a variety of Machine Learning methods to predict the choice...

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The impact of financial crisis on MFIs performance in Zimbabwe

Hlupo, Patience; Mukute, Tafadzwa; Chinoda, Tough; … - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 24 (2022) 2, pp. 1-25

Our study explores the impact financial crisis has on performance of microfinance institutions in Zimbabwe employing … impact of financial crisis on performance of Microfinance Institutions. We also found a positive effect of gross domestic … product, money supply, the first lag of inflation and exchange rates on microfinance institutions performance while the second …

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When “Less Is More” : How Statistical Discrimination Can Decrease Predictive Accuracy

Csaszar, Felipe A.; Jue-Rajasingh, Diana; Jensen, Michael - 2022

Discrimination is a pervasive aspect of modern society and human relations. Statistical discrimination theory suggests that profit-maximizing employers should use all the information about job candidates, including information about group membership (e.g., race or gender), to make accurate...

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Can Hypothetical Time Discounting Rates Predict Actual Behaviour : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Bonan, Jacopo - 2017

This paper estimates time preference parameters using commonly-applied methodologies, with the aim of investigating the link between these measures and actual economic behaviour. An experiment was conducted in the city of Thies, in Senegal, using the unique reference numbers of banknotes as a...

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The Sufficient Statistic Approach : Predicting the Top of the Laffer Curve

Badel, Alejandro - 2019

We provide a formula for the tax rate at the top of the Laffer curve as a function of three elasticities. Our formula applies to static models and to steady states of dynamic models. One of the elasticities that enters our formula has been estimated in the elasticity of taxable income...

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Predictably Competitive : What Faces Can Tell Us About Competitive Behavior

Balafoutas, Loukas; Fornwagner, Helena; Grosskopf, Brit - 2021

Competition for limited resources is ubiquitous in social and economic life and has sparked a large body of research on the determinants of competitive behavior. While we know a lot about the role of contextual factors and personality traits, no link has been established between competitive...

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A Fundamental Prediction Error : Self-Others Discrepancies in Risk Preference

Hsee, Christopher K.; Weber, Elke U. - 2011

This research examined whether people can accurately predict the risk preferences of others.Three experiments featuring different designs revealed a systematic bias: that participants predicted others to be more risk seeking than themselves in risky choices, regardless of whether the choices...

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Cross-National Differences in Risk Preference and Lay Predictions

Hsee, Christopher K.; Weber, Elke U. - 2011

This research explores whether there are systematic cross-national differences in choice-inferred risk preferences between Americans and Chinese. Study 1 found(a) that the Chinese were signi®cantly more risk seeking than the Americans, yet(b) that both nationals predicted exactly the opposite...

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Learning by Doing and Ben-Porath : Life-cycle Predictions and Policy Implications

Blandin, Adam - 2021

Many government policies affect incentives to acquire human capital. Two workhorse models dominate the literature analyzing these policies: Learning by Doing (LBD) and Ben-Porath (BP). This paper makes two novel findings related to these models. First, LBD and BP generate different predictions...

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Predicting the unpredictable : new experimental evidence on forecasting random walks

Te, Bao; Corgnet, Brice; Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Riyanto, … - 2022

We investigate how individuals use measures of apparent predictability from price charts to predict future market prices. Subjects in our experiment predict both random walk times series, as in the seminal work by Bloomfield & Hales (2002) (BH), and stock price time series. We successfully...

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