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A New International Database on Financial Fragility 0 0 0 111 2 6 11 283
A New International Database on Financial Fragility 0 0 0 54 1 2 4 123
Aid instability as a measure of uncertainty and the positive impact of aid on growth 0 0 1 7 4 6 15 53
An Assessment of the Brady Plan Agreements 0 0 1 173 1 6 8 611
Are Polish firms risk-averting or risk-loving?: evidence on demand uncertainty and the capital-labour ratio in a transition economy 0 0 0 2 2 3 5 26
Are there negative returns to aid? 0 0 0 9 6 10 13 64
Asymmetric information, option to wait to invest and the optimal level of investment 0 0 0 2 2 3 6 58
Bank efficiency and foreign ownership: do good institutions matter? 0 0 0 0 2 7 8 147
Banking in transition economies: does foreign ownership enhance profitability? 0 0 0 0 1 5 8 41
Business groups, financing constraints, and investment: the case of India 0 0 0 5 2 6 6 37
Business groups, financing constraints, and investment: the case of India 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 33
Capital flight and political risk 0 0 0 10 3 5 6 66
Capital flight and the uncertainty of government policies 0 0 1 23 0 1 6 89
Capital market imperfections, uncertainty and corporate investment in the Czech Republic 0 0 0 1 4 6 8 38
Chicken or egg: financial development and economic growth in China, 1992-2004 0 0 0 11 1 2 3 47
Collateral and Debt Maturity Choice. A Signaling Model 0 0 1 15 5 6 11 66
Commercialisering van microfinanciering: een goede zaak? 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 58
Corporate ownership as a means to solve adverse selection problems in a model of asymmetric information and credit rationing 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 11
De effecten van financiële liberalisatie op de economische groei, investeringen en besparingen 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 42
Developing Countries' Economic Performance in the 1990s: A World Model Approach 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 169
Development of stock markets, societal norms and legal institutions 0 0 0 1 2 6 8 29
Do reforms in transition economies affect foreign bank entry? 0 0 0 4 4 7 8 24
Does Conflict affect Preferences? Results from Field Experiments in Burundi 0 1 1 60 11 18 20 293
Does Conflict affect Preferences? Results from Field Experiments in Burundi 0 0 1 57 4 6 10 351
Does Financial Liberalization Influence Saving, Investment and Economic Growth?: Evidence from 25 Emerging Market Economies, 1973-97 0 0 0 213 2 4 4 488
Does bundling crop insurance with certified seeds crowd-in investments? Experimental evidence from Kenya 0 0 0 12 3 6 9 52
Does conflict affect preferences? Results from field experiments in Burundi 1 1 2 204 3 6 11 724
Does financial liberalization influence saving, investment and economic growth: evidence from 25 emerging market economies, 1973-1996 0 0 0 0 1 5 5 132
Does foreign ownership Foster bank performance 0 0 0 0 2 6 10 74
Does the group leader matter? The impact of monitoring activities and social ties of group leaders on the repayment performance of groupbased lending Eritrea 0 0 0 5 1 3 5 48
Does uncertainty affect economic growth?: an empirical analysis 0 0 0 12 2 5 6 120
Does uncertainty affect economic growth?: an empirical analysis 0 0 1 10 0 1 5 67
Dynamics of Investment for Market-Oriented Farmers in Chile 0 0 0 26 1 4 5 89
Economic Development of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam 0 0 2 13 3 6 9 54
Financial Liberalization, Informal Credit Markets and Imperfect Information 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 173
Financial development and the transmission of monetary shocks 0 0 0 5 3 3 4 49
Financial liberalization and capital flight 0 0 1 24 6 12 15 97
Financial reform and information problems in capital markets: an empirical analysis of the Chilean experience, 1983-1992 0 0 0 9 0 2 3 32
Fiscal Policy and Private Investment in Less Developed Countries 0 0 1 107 3 3 6 287
Flight Capital and its Reversal for Development Financing 0 0 1 59 5 6 11 189
Foreign aid and the public sector: a simulation approach 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 20
Foreign direct investment, financial development and economic growth 0 0 2 106 5 13 22 397
Foreign direct investment: flows, volatility and growth in developing countries 0 0 2 62 1 4 9 222
Foreign transfers and tropical deforestation: what terms of conditionality 0 0 0 0 2 6 6 28
Group lending and the role of the group leader:Theory and evidence from Eritrea 0 0 0 3 2 6 9 61
Growth, financial development, societal norms and legal institutions 0 0 0 13 1 6 8 83
Impact of Access to Credit on Farm Productivity of Fruit and Vegetable Growers in Chile 0 1 1 76 2 9 17 286
Impact of microfinance: a critical survey 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 177
Informal Credit Markets, deregulation and Private Investment 0 0 0 0 4 5 5 145
Investment, cash flow and uncertainty: evidence for the Netherlands 0 0 0 173 3 6 21 565
Investment, cash flow, and uncertainty: evidence for the Netherlands 0 0 0 2 2 5 5 37
Is size important for the investment-uncertainty relationship?: an empirical analyses for Dutch firms 0 0 0 4 8 13 16 84
Is the investment-uncertainty relationship non-linear?: an emperical [i.e. empirical] analysis for the Netherlands 0 0 0 4 4 7 8 36
Is there a Long Run Influence on Financial Development on Economic growth in Latin America 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 205
Is there an uncertainty-laffer curve? 0 0 0 3 2 4 5 25
It Works; It Doesn't; It Can, But that Depends...: 50 Years of Controversy Over the Macroeconomic Impact of Development Aid 0 1 2 270 4 8 19 589
Joint liability lending: a note 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 11
Lending policies of informal, formal and semiformal lenders: evidence from Vietnam 0 0 0 1 4 4 6 78
On signalling and debt maturity choice 0 0 0 2 1 4 5 30
Outreach and Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions 0 0 1 33 4 5 10 194
Peer monitoring, social ties and moral hazard in group lending programmes: evidence from Eritrea 0 1 1 6 1 7 9 59
Remittances and Financial Inclusion in Development 0 0 1 222 1 4 8 535
Risk behaviour and group formation in microcredit groups in Eritrea 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 26
Risk behaviour and group formation in microcredit groups in Eritrea 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 23
State capture, income and institutional quality 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 35
Stock-market efficiency in thin-trading markets: the case of the Vietnamese stock market 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 51
The Determinants of Loan Contracts to Business Firms: Empirical Evidence from a Private Bank in Vietnam 0 0 0 46 4 6 7 141
The Financial Sector and Its Influence on Economic Growth: Evidence from 14 Latin American Countries, 1963-1989 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 235
The Impact of International Remittances on Income, Work Efforts, Poverty and Inequality: Evidence from Vietnam 0 0 2 46 4 16 23 160
The determinants of capital structure: evidence from Dutch panel data 0 0 2 46 5 10 17 185
The empirics of microfinance: what do we know? 0 0 0 2 23 38 38 213
The impact of foreign bank entry on domestic banking markets: a note 0 1 1 30 4 14 25 186
The volatility of FDI, not the level, affects growth in developing countries 0 0 0 6 0 6 6 26
Trade, Capital, and the Transition in Central Europe 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 162
Uncertainty and growth of the firm 0 0 0 5 5 8 9 61
Uncertainty and investment of Dutch firms: an empirical analysis using stock market data 0 0 0 2 5 6 8 22
Uncertainty, financial development and economic growth: an empirical analysis 0 0 0 4 4 6 12 37
Uptake and impact of interlinked index-based insurance with credit and agricultural inputs: experimental evidence from Ethiopia 1 3 6 56 2 6 14 142
Value performance of European bank acquisitions 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 46
Total Working Papers 2 9 35 2,477 217 456 676 11,052
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A Guideline for Contextual Adaptation of Community-Based Health Interventions 0 0 0 0 4 4 7 9
A practical approach to validating a PD model 0 0 0 197 2 6 8 590
Adoption and impact of index-insurance and credit for smallholder farmers in developing countries 0 1 3 22 2 6 10 98
Aid allocation, poverty reduction and the Assessing Aid report 0 0 0 20 2 6 9 274
Aid instability as a measure of uncertainty and the positive impact of aid on growth 0 0 0 76 2 9 17 330
Allocative efficiency and financial deregulation 0 0 0 23 1 1 1 86
Ambiguity attitudes and demand for weather index insurance with and without a credit bundle: experimental evidence from Kenya 0 0 2 2 3 6 12 14
Are There Negative Returns to Aid? 1 1 5 475 4 8 16 1,396
Aspirational hope, dairy farming practices, and milk production: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Bolivia 0 0 1 3 4 6 9 25
Assessing Aid: A Manifesto for Aid in the 21st Century? 0 0 1 87 4 10 18 285
Asymmetric group loans, non-assortative matching and adverse selection 0 0 0 7 4 5 8 55
Asymmetric information, option to wait to invest and the optimal level of investment 0 0 0 28 1 5 6 185
Bank efficiency and foreign ownership: Do good institutions matter? 2 3 3 310 3 8 16 776
Banking in transition economies: does foreign ownership enhance profitability? 0 0 1 100 2 8 13 239
Banking reform and the financing of firm investment: An empirical analysis of the Chilean experience, 1983-92 0 0 0 8 3 5 6 78
Business groups, financing constraints and investment: the case of India 0 0 1 85 1 2 6 329
Capital Market Imperfections, Uncertainty and Corporate Investment in the Czech Republic 0 0 0 59 1 4 5 268
Capital account liberalization and income inequality 0 0 4 162 2 3 11 488
Capital flight and political risk 1 2 4 112 5 8 17 297
Capital flight and the uncertainty of government policies 0 0 2 86 1 4 15 286
Cash or In-kind Transfers? Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial in Delhi, India 0 0 0 35 1 1 7 94
Changing the Conditions for Development Aid: A New Paradigm? 1 1 2 413 4 7 10 1,037
Community conversations as a strategy to change harmful traditional practices against women 0 0 0 6 1 1 4 23
Controversies over the impact of development aid: it works; it doesn't; it can, but that depends … 0 4 11 916 3 12 43 2,970
Credit-linked insurance bundles in Zambia: evidence from the aftermath of a shock 0 0 1 3 1 3 7 11
Demand uncertainty and the capital-labour ratio in Poland 0 0 0 49 0 3 5 245
Do Gender and Business Trainings Affect Business Outcomes? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam 1 1 2 12 5 10 16 59
Do Powerful CEOs Determine Microfinance Performance? 0 0 0 23 6 8 9 91
Do Reforms in Transition Economies Affect Foreign Bank Entry? 0 0 0 21 1 1 1 59
Do Savings and Credit Institutions Reduce Vulnerability? New Evidence From Mexico 0 0 0 4 5 7 11 82
Do microfinance institutions benefit from integrating financial and nonfinancial services? 0 0 0 2 3 7 9 37
Do smallholder farmers prefer commitment or flexibility in pension savings accounts? A randomised experiment of cocoa farmers in Ghana 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4
Does Group Affiliation Improve Firm Performance? The Case of Chinese State-Owned Firms 0 0 0 24 2 3 3 87
Does Microfinance Make Households More Resilient to Shocks? Evidence From the Cyclone Phailin in India 0 0 1 7 1 5 9 34
Does bundling crop insurance with certified seeds crowd-in investments? Experimental evidence from Kenya 0 0 2 4 6 10 18 32
Does foreign bank entry really stimulate gross domestic investment? 0 0 0 85 0 2 2 252
Does foreign ownership foster bank performance? 0 0 1 200 2 11 15 534
Does group affiliation increase firm value for diversified groups?: New evidence from Indian companies 0 0 0 19 1 2 3 239
Does microcredit increase aspirational hope? Evidence from a group lending scheme in Sierra Leone 0 0 3 14 6 8 17 73
Does the Group Leader Matter? The Impact of Monitoring Activities and Social Ties of Group Leaders on the Repayment Performance of Group‐based Lending in Eritrea 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 41
Does the Revival of International Private Capital Flows Mean the End of Aid?: An Analysis of Developing Countries' Access to Private Capital 0 0 0 55 4 4 8 207
Does uncertainty affect economic growth? An empirical analysis 0 0 0 49 2 3 8 242
Dutch inventory investment: are capital market imperfections relevant? 0 0 0 43 3 4 9 238
Effects of Index Insurance on Demand and Supply of Credit: Evidence from Ethiopia 0 1 1 2 1 9 14 45
Empowerment and intimate partner violence: Domestic abuse when household income is uncertain 0 0 0 5 7 9 17 46
Financial Liberalization, Foreign Aid, and Private and Public Investment 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 72
Financial Literacy and Financial Behaviour: Experimental Evidence from Rural Rwanda 0 0 2 65 3 4 10 219
Financial liberalization and economic growth: A meta-analysis 0 3 4 182 4 9 15 648
Financial repression and fiscal policy 0 0 0 48 1 3 3 120
Financial system development in transition economies 0 0 0 217 2 4 7 558
Foreign Bank Presence, Domestic Bank Performance and Financial Development 0 0 1 22 1 5 9 80
Foreign Banks and Economic Transition 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 4
Foreign Direct Investment: Flows, Volatility, and the Impact on Growth* 0 2 10 279 14 22 44 633
Foreign Transfers and Tropical Deforestation: What Terms of Conditionality? 0 0 0 34 4 5 12 193
Foreign direct investment, financial development and economic growth 3 6 26 1,333 6 19 91 3,503
Foreign exchange constraints and developing countries 0 0 0 52 3 5 9 226
Gender training and female empowerment: Experimental evidence from Vietnam 1 1 2 49 3 8 11 157
Group lending and the role of the group leader 0 0 0 20 4 8 9 89
Group lending with correlated project outcomes 0 0 0 16 2 3 4 82
Growth, financial development, societal norms and legal institutions* 0 1 1 85 2 4 5 673
Household Borrowing in Vietnam 0 0 0 8 4 5 5 51
How did COVID affect savings and wealth? An empirical study in South Africa 0 0 1 1 4 5 9 11
Impacts of the Gender and Entrepreneurship Together Ahead (GET Ahead) training on empowerment of female microfinance borrowers in Northern Vietnam 0 0 1 35 6 16 23 194
Infant and child mortality in developing countries: Analysing the data for Robust determinants 0 0 0 307 2 4 5 1,095
Institutions and Bank Performance: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis 0 0 0 24 3 7 9 96
International diversification and Microfinance 0 0 0 101 3 8 11 340
Is the uncertainty-investment link non-linear? Empirical evidence for developed economies 0 0 0 30 3 5 7 105
Joint Liability Lending and the Peer Selection Effect 0 0 0 123 2 3 5 322
Legal Restrictions and Investment Growth 0 0 0 28 3 4 5 99
Lending policies of informal, formal and semiformal lenders 0 0 1 95 5 7 14 366
Liquidity Constraints and Willingness to Pay for Solar Lamps and Water Filters in Jakarta 0 0 0 2 0 5 6 39
Liquidity constraints, informal institutions, and the adoption of weather insurance: A randomized controlled Trial in Ethiopia 1 2 2 26 7 14 23 151
Liquidity defaults and progressive lending in microfinance: A lab‐in‐the field experiment in Bolivia 0 1 4 9 2 7 14 33
Loan Officers' Gender and Microfinance Repayment Rates 0 0 0 12 2 5 6 60
Macroeconomic effects of a currency devaluation in Egypt: An analysis with a computable general equilibrium model with financial markets and forward-looking expectations 0 0 0 157 1 1 3 500
Measuring the impact of an ongoing microcredit project: evidence from a study in Ghana 0 1 2 8 3 6 8 23
Microfinance: Its Impact, Outreach, and Sustainability 0 4 13 585 7 17 53 1,799
Monetary transmission and bank competition in the EMU 0 0 0 99 1 2 3 259
Official finance requirements in the 1990s 0 0 0 19 0 1 1 68
On signalling and debt maturity choice 0 0 0 0 8 10 11 12
On the Signalling Role of Debt Maturity 0 0 0 44 0 2 6 157
On the signalling property of debt maturity: empirical evidence from a private bank in Vietnam 0 0 0 15 1 3 6 87
Outreach and Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions 0 2 11 509 4 17 51 1,594
Ownership and technical efficiency of microfinance institutions: Empirical evidence from Latin America 0 0 2 90 2 6 15 325
PROTOCOL: Effects of interventions to improve access to financial services for micro‐, small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises in low‐ and middle‐income countries: An evidence and gap map 0 0 1 4 0 1 5 14
Peer Monitoring, Social Ties and Moral Hazard in Group Lending Programs: Evidence from Eritrea 0 2 3 125 4 7 9 406
Political connections and household access to bank loans: evidence from China 0 0 0 1 1 4 5 6
Provisioning over the business cycle: Some insights from the microfinance industry 0 0 1 4 8 8 11 31
Randomized interventions and “real” treatment effects: A cautionary tale and an example 0 0 1 12 2 3 6 30
Religion, social desirability bias and financial inclusion: Evidence from a list experiment on Islamic (micro-)finance 0 2 3 7 7 18 21 37
Risk and ambiguity aversion behavior in index-based insurance uptake decisions: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia 0 0 4 14 3 5 17 58
Short- and Medium-term Impacts of Employability Training: Evidence from a Randomised Field Experiment in Rwanda 0 0 4 9 7 13 22 32
Slavery, Statehood, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 2 111 2 6 16 347
Social and financial exclusion: the role of microfinance 0 0 0 82 2 3 4 199
State capture, income and institutional quality 0 0 0 37 5 10 11 116
Stock-market efficiency in thin-trading markets: the case of the Vietnamese stock market 0 0 0 47 4 11 21 200
The Credit Constraints of Market-Oriented Farmers in Chile 0 0 0 4 1 4 8 20
The Effect of Financial Liberalization on Capital Flight in African Economies 0 0 2 127 3 6 11 370
The Impact of Social and Financial Education on Savings Attitudes and Behavior Among Primary School Children in Uganda 0 2 4 18 4 12 26 84
The Impact of Trade Credit on Customer Switching Behaviour: Evidence from the Tanzanian Rice Market 0 0 0 16 2 5 7 128
The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid: Bertin Martins with Uwe Mummert, Peter Murrell and Paul Seabright, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 0521 808189 (hardback), [UK pound]40.00 (US$60.00) 0 0 0 129 3 3 5 421
The Inverted-U hypothesis for the effect of uncertainty on investment: Evidence from UK firms 0 0 0 83 2 6 10 1,142
The Option to Wait to Invest and Equilibrium Credit Rationing 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 310
The Origins of Optimism: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment among Microfinance Clients in Bolivia 1 1 2 4 3 3 7 12
The Plus in Credit-Plus-Technical Assistance: Evidence from a Rural Microcredit Programme in Bolivia 0 0 0 5 2 3 10 21
The allocative efficiency of the formal versus the informal financial sector 0 0 0 45 0 2 7 147
The determinants of trade credit use: the case of the Tanzanian rice market 0 0 0 13 4 5 5 71
The double bottom line of microfinance: A global comparison between conventional and Islamic microfinance 1 1 8 24 3 19 49 136
The empirics of microfinance: what do we know? 0 0 0 480 4 7 8 1,061
The impact of a gender and business training on income hiding: An experimental study in Vietnam 0 0 1 15 5 6 13 103
The impact of microcredit on self‐employment profits in Vietnam 0 0 0 48 2 8 11 134
The impact of privatization on firm performance in a transition economy: The case of Vietnam 1 1 2 100 3 6 11 291
The impact of work and non‐work migration on household welfare, poverty and inequality 0 0 0 44 1 2 4 125
The short-term effects of foreign bank entry on domestic bank behaviour: Does economic development matter? 1 1 3 372 1 1 11 880
Trade credit use and competition in the value chain 0 0 0 7 5 8 10 52
Uncertainty and Financing Constraints 0 0 0 3 1 2 4 32
Uncertainty and Growth of the Firm 0 0 0 44 5 5 6 218
Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan1 1 1 1 2 4 12 22 38
Value performance of European bank acquisitions 0 0 0 20 1 2 3 63
Violent Conflict and Behavior: A Field Experiment in Burundi 0 1 3 231 3 7 15 770
What Can We Learn from Impact Evaluations&quest 0 0 0 36 1 1 1 67
Why agricultural insurance may slow down agricultural development 0 0 0 6 3 7 13 28
Women's empowerment and domestic abuse: Experimental evidence from Vietnam 3 6 16 133 11 26 59 481
Total Journal Articles 19 55 195 11,044 368 771 1,482 36,614
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Advanced Introduction to Financial Inclusion 0 0 0 0 2 5 27 73
Investment, Capital Market Imperfections, and Uncertainty 0 0 0 56 4 8 17 169
Total Books 0 0 0 56 6 13 44 242


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Capital Flight: The Key Issues 0 0 0 12 1 1 2 49
Does financial liberalization accentuate financial instability? 0 0 2 7 0 1 5 15
Does microfinance cause banking sector development and economic growth? An application to Mongolia 0 1 1 5 2 5 7 18
Fintech and Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries 0 0 0 2 7 21 40 89
Governance and Microfinance Institutions 0 0 2 22 3 6 13 109
Remittances and International Trade in Africa 0 0 0 0 3 5 8 12
Social Investment in Microfinance: The Trade-Off Between Risk, Return and Outreach to the Poor 0 0 0 5 1 2 3 34
The coexistence of formal and informal finance: new evidence from the use of trade finance by farmers in Chile 0 0 2 10 2 3 13 34
Total Chapters 0 1 7 63 19 44 91 360


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