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Finding the Diamonds in the Rough: Welfare Comparisons of Two Targeting Mechanisms in Microcredit
Key insights Faculty Associate Sujata Visaria presented updated findings on her ongoing study of two micro-credit models, Group-Based Lending and Trader-Agent-Intermediated-Lending (TRAIL). The new micro-credit schemes forgo traditional joint-liability lending (JLL) by groups of borrowers and suggests more effective ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2017/visaria-diamond-welfare-comparison-microcredit
The Equity Impacts of Targeted Smallholder Agricultural Credit
We examine the distributive impacts of two alternative approaches to deliver agricultural credit to smallholders: TRAIL (or trader-agent intermediated lending), where local traders recommend village residents for individual liability micro-leans, and GBL (or group-based lending), where households self-select into ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/maitra-equity-impacts-of-targeted-smallholder-agricultural-credit
Product Market Response to Corporate Governance Shocks: Evidence from India
In 2000, India has adopted a major corporate governance reform (Clause 49) that required the adoption of audit committees, a minimum number of independent directors, and CEO/SFO certification of financial statements and internal controls. While initially the largest firms were required to adopt these changes, later ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2015/zaldokas-mukherjee-product-market-response
Monetary Policy Transmission: Visible Disconnect – IEMS’ Sasi Gopalan Pens Op-Ed on India’s Incomplete Interest-rate Pass-through Mechanism
IEMS’ Sasidaran Gopalan was featured in an eSocialScience op-ed on India’s woefully incomplete interest-rate pass-through mechanism, and how the Reserve Bank of India’s recent rate cuts clearly illustrate the disconnect of monetary policy transmission in India. As Dr. Gopalan argued: The strength ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2015/gopalan-esocialscience-monetary-policy-transmission-visible-disconnect
Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Indian Potato Farmers
In the Indian state of West Bengal, potato farmers sell to local middlemen because they lack direct access to wholesale markets. In high-frequency farmer marketing surveys we find that farmers are poorly informed about wholesale and retail prices, and there is a large gap between wholesale and farmgate prices. To test ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/asymmetric-information-and-middleman-margins
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