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A New International Database on Financial Fragility 0 0 0 111 0 0 11 287
A New International Database on Financial Fragility 0 0 0 54 0 3 6 127
Aid instability as a measure of uncertainty and the positive impact of aid on growth 0 0 0 7 1 1 16 59
An Assessment of the Brady Plan Agreements 0 0 0 173 1 2 9 614
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 0 0 4 27
Are there negative returns to aid? 0 0 1 10 0 1 18 71
Asymmetric information, option to wait to invest and the optimal level of investment 0 0 0 2 0 1 10 63
Bank efficiency and foreign ownership: do good institutions matter? 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 151
Banking in transition economies: does foreign ownership enhance profitability? 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 45
Business groups, financing constraints, and investment: the case of India 0 0 0 5 0 0 7 38
Business groups, financing constraints, and investment: the case of India 0 0 0 5 0 0 4 37
Capital flight and political risk 0 0 1 11 0 1 14 75
Capital flight and the uncertainty of government policies 0 0 1 23 2 2 7 92
Capital market imperfections, uncertainty and corporate investment in the Czech Republic 0 0 0 1 1 1 14 46
Chicken or egg: financial development and economic growth in China, 1992-2004 0 0 0 11 0 0 8 52
Collateral and Debt Maturity Choice. A Signaling Model 0 0 0 15 0 0 15 75
Commercialisering van microfinanciering: een goede zaak? 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 62
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 7 16
De effecten van financiële liberalisatie op de economische groei, investeringen en besparingen 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 44
Developing Countries' Economic Performance in the 1990s: A World Model Approach 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 170
Development of stock markets, societal norms and legal institutions 0 0 0 1 0 0 10 32
Do reforms in transition economies affect foreign bank entry? 0 0 0 4 1 1 10 26
Does Conflict affect Preferences? Results from Field Experiments in Burundi 0 0 1 60 1 2 30 304
Does Conflict affect Preferences? Results from Field Experiments in Burundi 0 0 0 57 0 0 10 353
Does Financial Liberalization Influence Saving, Investment and Economic Growth?: Evidence from 25 Emerging Market Economies, 1973-97 0 0 0 213 0 1 13 497
Does bundling crop insurance with certified seeds crowd-in investments? Experimental evidence from Kenya 0 0 0 12 0 1 19 65
Does conflict affect preferences? Results from field experiments in Burundi 0 0 2 204 1 4 19 733
Does financial liberalization influence saving, investment and economic growth: evidence from 25 emerging market economies, 1973-1996 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 133
Does foreign ownership Foster bank performance 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 77
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 0 0 6 50
Does uncertainty affect economic growth?: an empirical analysis 0 0 0 12 0 0 11 126
Does uncertainty affect economic growth?: an empirical analysis 0 0 1 10 0 0 9 72
Dynamics of Investment for Market-Oriented Farmers in Chile 0 0 0 26 0 0 6 91
Economic Development of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam 0 0 2 13 1 1 15 61
Financial Liberalization, Informal Credit Markets and Imperfect Information 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 173
Financial development and the transmission of monetary shocks 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 51
Financial liberalization and capital flight 0 0 2 26 0 0 17 102
Financial reform and information problems in capital markets: an empirical analysis of the Chilean experience, 1983-1992 0 0 0 9 0 0 4 34
Fiscal Policy and Private Investment in Less Developed Countries 0 0 1 107 1 1 7 290
Flight Capital and its Reversal for Development Financing 0 0 2 61 0 1 19 200
Foreign aid and the public sector: a simulation approach 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 23
Foreign direct investment, financial development and economic growth 0 0 0 106 14 16 40 420
Foreign direct investment: flows, volatility and growth in developing countries 0 0 1 62 5 6 20 235
Foreign transfers and tropical deforestation: what terms of conditionality 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 29
Group lending and the role of the group leader:Theory and evidence from Eritrea 0 0 0 3 1 1 11 66
Growth, financial development, societal norms and legal institutions 0 0 0 13 2 2 13 89
Impact of Access to Credit on Farm Productivity of Fruit and Vegetable Growers in Chile 1 1 2 77 1 2 19 291
Impact of microfinance: a critical survey 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 181
Informal Credit Markets, deregulation and Private Investment 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 146
Investment, cash flow and uncertainty: evidence for the Netherlands 0 0 0 173 1 2 19 578
Investment, cash flow, and uncertainty: evidence for the Netherlands 0 0 0 2 0 0 6 38
Is size important for the investment-uncertainty relationship?: an empirical analyses for Dutch firms 0 0 0 4 0 0 20 90
Is the investment-uncertainty relationship non-linear?: an emperical [i.e. empirical] analysis for the Netherlands 0 0 0 4 1 2 14 42
Is there a Long Run Influence on Financial Development on Economic growth in Latin America 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 205
Is there an uncertainty-laffer curve? 0 0 0 3 0 0 6 27
It Works; It Doesn't; It Can, But that Depends...: 50 Years of Controversy Over the Macroeconomic Impact of Development Aid 1 1 3 272 1 2 20 598
Joint liability lending: a note 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 14
Lending policies of informal, formal and semiformal lenders: evidence from Vietnam 0 0 0 1 0 0 8 82
On signalling and debt maturity choice 0 0 1 3 1 1 9 34
Outreach and Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions 0 0 0 33 2 3 11 198
Peer monitoring, social ties and moral hazard in group lending programmes: evidence from Eritrea 0 0 1 6 2 2 12 63
Remittances and Financial Inclusion in Development 0 0 2 223 1 2 13 541
Risk behaviour and group formation in microcredit groups in Eritrea 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 29
Risk behaviour and group formation in microcredit groups in Eritrea 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 29
State capture, income and institutional quality 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 38
Stock-market efficiency in thin-trading markets: the case of the Vietnamese stock market 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 53
The Determinants of Loan Contracts to Business Firms: Empirical Evidence from a Private Bank in Vietnam 0 0 0 46 1 1 13 148
The Financial Sector and Its Influence on Economic Growth: Evidence from 14 Latin American Countries, 1963-1989 0 0 0 3 0 0 4 237
The Impact of International Remittances on Income, Work Efforts, Poverty and Inequality: Evidence from Vietnam 0 0 0 46 0 3 39 181
The determinants of capital structure: evidence from Dutch panel data 0 0 0 46 0 0 14 188
The empirics of microfinance: what do we know? 0 0 0 2 0 1 44 219
The impact of foreign bank entry on domestic banking markets: a note 0 0 1 30 0 0 20 189
The volatility of FDI, not the level, affects growth in developing countries 0 0 0 6 6 6 13 33
Trade, Capital, and the Transition in Central Europe 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 165
Uncertainty and growth of the firm 0 0 0 5 1 1 11 64
Uncertainty and investment of Dutch firms: an empirical analysis using stock market data 0 0 0 2 0 0 8 24
Uncertainty, financial development and economic growth: an empirical analysis 0 0 0 4 0 1 9 39
Uptake and impact of interlinked index-based insurance with credit and agricultural inputs: experimental evidence from Ethiopia 0 0 4 56 2 2 17 151
Value performance of European bank acquisitions 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 51
Total Working Papers 2 2 29 2,488 54 86 928 11,449
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A Guideline for Contextual Adaptation of Community-Based Health Interventions 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 13
A practical approach to validating a PD model 0 0 6 203 0 1 20 602
Adoption and impact of index-insurance and credit for smallholder farmers in developing countries 0 1 2 23 2 7 20 112
Aid allocation, poverty reduction and the Assessing Aid report 0 0 0 20 0 0 10 277
Aid instability as a measure of uncertainty and the positive impact of aid on growth 0 1 3 79 0 1 15 335
Allocative efficiency and financial deregulation 0 0 0 23 0 1 2 87
Ambiguity attitudes and demand for weather index insurance with and without a credit bundle: experimental evidence from Kenya 0 0 0 2 1 2 20 27
Are There Negative Returns to Aid? 0 0 1 475 1 2 20 1,407
Aspirational hope, dairy farming practices, and milk production: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Bolivia 0 0 0 3 1 7 20 37
Assessing Aid: A Manifesto for Aid in the 21st Century? 0 0 1 87 0 0 11 285
Asymmetric group loans, non-assortative matching and adverse selection 0 0 0 7 0 1 12 61
Asymmetric information, option to wait to invest and the optimal level of investment 0 0 0 28 0 0 7 187
Bank efficiency and foreign ownership: Do good institutions matter? 0 0 3 310 0 1 19 784
Banking in transition economies: does foreign ownership enhance profitability? 0 0 0 100 0 0 16 246
Banking reform and the financing of firm investment: An empirical analysis of the Chilean experience, 1983-92 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 80
Business groups, financing constraints and investment: the case of India 1 1 2 86 1 1 9 333
Capital Market Imperfections, Uncertainty and Corporate Investment in the Czech Republic 0 0 0 59 0 0 8 271
Capital account liberalization and income inequality 0 2 4 165 0 4 20 502
Capital flight and political risk 0 1 6 116 1 2 19 306
Capital flight and the uncertainty of government policies 0 0 1 86 0 1 14 290
Cash or In-kind Transfers? Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial in Delhi, India 0 0 0 35 0 0 15 105
Changing the Conditions for Development Aid: A New Paradigm? 1 1 2 414 1 1 11 1,041
Community conversations as a strategy to change harmful traditional practices against women 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 23
Controversies over the impact of development aid: it works; it doesn't; it can, but that depends … 0 0 10 920 0 3 36 2,987
Credit-linked insurance bundles in Zambia: evidence from the aftermath of a shock 0 0 2 4 0 1 10 16
Demand uncertainty and the capital-labour ratio in Poland 0 0 0 49 0 1 7 247
Do Gender and Business Trainings Affect Business Outcomes? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam 0 0 1 12 0 2 16 64
Do Powerful CEOs Determine Microfinance Performance? 0 0 0 23 0 0 13 96
Do Reforms in Transition Economies Affect Foreign Bank Entry? 0 0 0 21 0 2 6 64
Do Savings and Credit Institutions Reduce Vulnerability? New Evidence From Mexico 0 0 0 4 0 2 16 91
Do microfinance institutions benefit from integrating financial and nonfinancial services? 0 0 1 3 2 4 23 53
Do smallholder farmers prefer commitment or flexibility in pension savings accounts? A randomised experiment of cocoa farmers in Ghana 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6
Does Group Affiliation Improve Firm Performance? The Case of Chinese State-Owned Firms 0 0 0 24 0 0 4 88
Does Microfinance Make Households More Resilient to Shocks? Evidence From the Cyclone Phailin in India 0 0 0 7 0 0 7 35
Does bundling crop insurance with certified seeds crowd-in investments? Experimental evidence from Kenya 1 1 1 5 2 3 16 38
Does foreign bank entry really stimulate gross domestic investment? 0 0 0 85 1 1 5 255
Does foreign ownership foster bank performance? 0 0 0 200 0 1 20 543
Does group affiliation increase firm value for diversified groups?: New evidence from Indian companies 0 0 0 19 0 0 6 242
Does microcredit increase aspirational hope? Evidence from a group lending scheme in Sierra Leone 0 0 1 14 0 0 18 80
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 0 1 10 49
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 0 0 8 210
Does uncertainty affect economic growth? An empirical analysis 0 0 0 49 1 1 7 245
Dutch inventory investment: are capital market imperfections relevant? 0 0 0 43 1 2 11 242
Effects of Index Insurance on Demand and Supply of Credit: Evidence from Ethiopia 0 0 1 2 2 2 23 57
Empowerment and intimate partner violence: Domestic abuse when household income is uncertain 0 0 0 5 0 2 21 54
Financial Liberalization, Foreign Aid, and Private and Public Investment 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 74
Financial Literacy and Financial Behaviour: Experimental Evidence from Rural Rwanda 0 0 2 66 0 0 11 225
Financial liberalization and economic growth: A meta-analysis 0 0 4 183 2 4 21 658
Financial repression and fiscal policy 0 0 0 48 0 0 8 125
Financial system development in transition economies 0 0 0 217 0 0 7 561
Foreign Bank Presence, Domestic Bank Performance and Financial Development 0 0 0 22 1 1 10 84
Foreign Banks and Economic Transition 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 5
Foreign Direct Investment: Flows, Volatility, and the Impact on Growth* 0 2 4 281 0 3 67 676
Foreign Transfers and Tropical Deforestation: What Terms of Conditionality? 0 0 0 34 1 1 12 195
Foreign direct investment, financial development and economic growth 0 4 20 1,342 2 16 73 3,543
Foreign exchange constraints and developing countries 0 0 1 53 0 1 9 229
Gender training and female empowerment: Experimental evidence from Vietnam 0 0 2 49 0 1 14 162
Group lending and the role of the group leader 0 0 0 20 1 3 14 95
Group lending with correlated project outcomes 0 0 0 16 1 2 8 87
Growth, financial development, societal norms and legal institutions* 0 0 1 85 2 4 13 682
Household Borrowing in Vietnam 0 0 0 8 0 0 10 56
How did COVID affect savings and wealth? An empirical study in South Africa 0 1 2 2 0 1 8 12
Impacts of the Gender and Entrepreneurship Together Ahead (GET Ahead) training on empowerment of female microfinance borrowers in Northern Vietnam 0 0 1 36 0 1 29 201
Infant and child mortality in developing countries: Analysing the data for Robust determinants 0 0 0 307 0 1 7 1,098
Institutions and Bank Performance: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis 0 0 1 25 0 1 13 101
International diversification and Microfinance 0 1 1 102 0 2 12 344
Is the uncertainty-investment link non-linear? Empirical evidence for developed economies 0 0 0 30 0 0 6 105
Joint Liability Lending and the Peer Selection Effect 0 0 0 123 0 1 5 324
Legal Restrictions and Investment Growth 0 0 0 28 0 1 7 102
Lending policies of informal, formal and semiformal lenders 0 0 2 96 0 0 22 377
Liquidity Constraints and Willingness to Pay for Solar Lamps and Water Filters in Jakarta 0 0 0 2 0 2 11 45
Liquidity constraints, informal institutions, and the adoption of weather insurance: A randomized controlled Trial in Ethiopia 0 2 7 31 0 5 42 176
Liquidity defaults and progressive lending in microfinance: A lab‐in‐the field experiment in Bolivia 0 0 2 9 1 2 30 54
Loan Officers' Gender and Microfinance Repayment Rates 0 0 1 13 0 2 24 79
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 0 2 5 502
Measuring the impact of an ongoing microcredit project: evidence from a study in Ghana 0 0 1 8 0 0 11 27
Microfinance: Its Impact, Outreach, and Sustainability 1 1 12 588 1 3 49 1,817
Monetary transmission and bank competition in the EMU 0 0 0 99 0 0 8 265
Official finance requirements in the 1990s 0 0 0 19 0 1 2 69
On signalling and debt maturity choice 0 0 0 0 1 2 17 18
On the Signalling Role of Debt Maturity 0 0 0 44 0 0 5 158
On the signalling property of debt maturity: empirical evidence from a private bank in Vietnam 0 0 0 15 0 1 8 91
Outreach and Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions 0 0 7 511 0 2 40 1,607
Ownership and technical efficiency of microfinance institutions: Empirical evidence from Latin America 0 0 1 90 0 0 13 330
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 2 10 21
Peer Monitoring, Social Ties and Moral Hazard in Group Lending Programs: Evidence from Eritrea 0 0 3 126 1 3 15 413
Political connections and household access to bank loans: evidence from China 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 11
Provisioning over the business cycle: Some insights from the microfinance industry 0 0 1 5 1 2 20 42
Randomized interventions and “real” treatment effects: A cautionary tale and an example 0 0 0 12 0 0 9 35
Religion, social desirability bias and financial inclusion: Evidence from a list experiment on Islamic (micro-)finance 0 0 2 7 0 1 38 56
Risk and ambiguity aversion behavior in index-based insurance uptake decisions: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia 0 0 0 14 1 2 19 71
Short- and Medium-term Impacts of Employability Training: Evidence from a Randomised Field Experiment in Rwanda 0 0 2 10 0 2 24 42
Slavery, Statehood, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 0 111 0 1 18 356
Social and financial exclusion: the role of microfinance 0 0 0 82 0 0 4 200
State capture, income and institutional quality 0 0 0 37 1 1 15 121
Stock-market efficiency in thin-trading markets: the case of the Vietnamese stock market 0 0 2 49 2 6 29 216
The Credit Constraints of Market-Oriented Farmers in Chile 0 0 0 4 0 1 8 23
The Effect of Financial Liberalization on Capital Flight in African Economies 0 0 2 128 0 1 15 376
The Impact of Social and Financial Education on Savings Attitudes and Behavior Among Primary School Children in Uganda 1 1 5 20 2 4 36 103
The Impact of Trade Credit on Customer Switching Behaviour: Evidence from the Tanzanian Rice Market 0 0 0 16 0 0 10 131
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 0 0 5 423
The Inverted-U hypothesis for the effect of uncertainty on investment: Evidence from UK firms 0 1 1 84 1 2 10 1,145
The Option to Wait to Invest and Equilibrium Credit Rationing 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 317
The Origins of Optimism: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment among Microfinance Clients in Bolivia 0 0 2 4 0 1 10 17
The Plus in Credit-Plus-Technical Assistance: Evidence from a Rural Microcredit Programme in Bolivia 0 0 0 5 0 0 7 24
The allocative efficiency of the formal versus the informal financial sector 0 0 0 45 1 1 6 148
The determinants of trade credit use: the case of the Tanzanian rice market 0 0 0 13 1 2 8 74
The double bottom line of microfinance: A global comparison between conventional and Islamic microfinance 1 1 5 26 2 4 42 146
The empirics of microfinance: what do we know? 0 0 0 480 0 3 16 1,070
The impact of a gender and business training on income hiding: An experimental study in Vietnam 0 1 1 16 0 3 16 110
The impact of microcredit on self‐employment profits in Vietnam 0 0 1 49 0 0 20 145
The impact of privatization on firm performance in a transition economy: The case of Vietnam 0 0 1 100 0 0 12 296
The impact of work and non‐work migration on household welfare, poverty and inequality 0 0 0 44 0 1 8 130
The short-term effects of foreign bank entry on domestic bank behaviour: Does economic development matter? 1 1 2 373 1 2 13 888
Trade credit use and competition in the value chain 0 0 0 7 0 2 15 57
Uncertainty and Financing Constraints 0 0 0 3 1 1 8 38
Uncertainty and Growth of the Firm 0 0 0 44 0 2 14 226
Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan1 0 0 1 2 0 0 22 45
Value performance of European bank acquisitions 0 0 0 20 1 2 5 66
Violent Conflict and Behavior: A Field Experiment in Burundi 0 1 5 234 3 7 30 790
What Can We Learn from Impact Evaluations&quest 0 0 0 36 1 2 5 71
Why agricultural insurance may slow down agricultural development 0 0 0 6 1 5 21 40
Women's empowerment and domestic abuse: Experimental evidence from Vietnam 0 3 12 137 1 6 54 504
Total Journal Articles 7 28 169 11,121 52 204 1,887 37,519
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Advanced Introduction to Financial Inclusion 0 0 0 0 1 7 32 97
Investment, Capital Market Imperfections, and Uncertainty 0 0 0 56 0 0 14 174
Total Books 0 0 0 56 1 7 46 271


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Capital Flight: The Key Issues 0 0 0 12 0 0 3 51
Does financial liberalization accentuate financial instability? 0 0 0 7 0 0 5 18
Does microfinance cause banking sector development and economic growth? An application to Mongolia 1 2 3 7 1 2 12 24
Fintech and Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries 0 0 0 2 0 6 58 124
Governance and Microfinance Institutions 0 0 0 22 0 0 13 114
Remittances and International Trade in Africa 0 0 0 0 2 2 16 21
Social Investment in Microfinance: The Trade-Off Between Risk, Return and Outreach to the Poor 0 0 0 5 0 0 3 35
The coexistence of formal and informal finance: new evidence from the use of trade finance by farmers in Chile 0 0 2 11 0 0 15 42
Total Chapters 1 2 5 66 3 10 125 429


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