It is becoming increasingly important to determine the value of microfinance banks, since they are subjected to a growing number of equity transactions. The present dissertation at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) examines valuation methods for microfinance banks and uses...

It is somehow common understanding that MFI have better Portfolio at Risk ratios than commercial banks. The present article shows evidence that this thesis is not valid (anymore). Out of six randomly chosen countries with sufficient data, five confirm the thesis