attract safer borrowers and rouse an otherwise dormant credit market. We extend the theory to include correlated risk, and …How has the microcredit movement managed to push financial frontiers? Theory shows that if borrowers vary in … type of risk exposure. Evidence supports the theory, in that groups are more homogeneous in riskiness but less diversified …

In this paper we study the determinants of use of formal and informal credit sources. Given that awareness is a … necessary step towards use of credit, in order to control for the possible selection bias we decompose the decision to use … credit as a two stage decision process in which first, households form their choice set by deciding which type of …

: Financial Intermediation in Colonial 17th- and 18th-Century Buenos Aires: Credit, Trust, and Asymmetric Information Martín … Wasserman -- Chapter 4: A Network Analysis of Credit Transactions at the Cape Colony During the 18th Century Christie Swanepoel … -- Chapter 5: An Enslaved Credit Market: Slavery, Deeds, and Litigation in 19th-Century Rio de Janeiro’s Financial Landscape …

3. Microcredit in the Shop in Late Medieval Tuscany: A Credit Centre for the Poor -- Chapter 4. Small Credit and the …. Shopkeepers and Credit Allocation: Consumption Credit in an Old Regime Economy (Buenos Aires, 17th to 19th Centuries) -- Part II … 13. Credit, Solidarity Networks and the Rural Poor in Pre-Industrial France -- Chapter 14. Making way for the Sparkasse …