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A New International Database on Financial Fragility 0 0 1 111 0 1 5 276
A New International Database on Financial Fragility 0 0 0 54 0 1 2 121
Aid instability as a measure of uncertainty and the positive impact of aid on growth 0 1 1 7 2 5 8 45
An Assessment of the Brady Plan Agreements 0 1 1 173 0 1 2 605
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 2 3 23
Are there negative returns to aid? 0 0 0 9 1 2 4 54
Asymmetric information, option to wait to invest and the optimal level of investment 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 53
Bank efficiency and foreign ownership: do good institutions matter? 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 140
Banking in transition economies: does foreign ownership enhance profitability? 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 36
Business groups, financing constraints, and investment: the case of India 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 33
Business groups, financing constraints, and investment: the case of India 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 31
Capital flight and political risk 0 0 0 10 0 1 1 61
Capital flight and the uncertainty of government policies 0 0 0 22 1 2 3 86
Capital market imperfections, uncertainty and corporate investment in the Czech Republic 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 32
Chicken or egg: financial development and economic growth in China, 1992-2004 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 44
Collateral and Debt Maturity Choice. A Signaling Model 0 0 1 15 0 0 5 60
Commercialisering van microfinanciering: een goede zaak? 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 54
Corporate ownership as a means to solve adverse selection problems in a model of asymmetric information and credit rationing 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 9
De effecten van financiële liberalisatie op de economische groei, investeringen en besparingen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39
Developing Countries' Economic Performance in the 1990s: A World Model Approach 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 167
Development of stock markets, societal norms and legal institutions 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 23
Do reforms in transition economies affect foreign bank entry? 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 17
Does Conflict affect Preferences? Results from Field Experiments in Burundi 0 0 0 59 1 2 5 275
Does Conflict affect Preferences? Results from Field Experiments in Burundi 0 0 1 57 0 0 4 343
Does Financial Liberalization Influence Saving, Investment and Economic Growth?: Evidence from 25 Emerging Market Economies, 1973-97 0 0 1 213 0 0 1 484
Does bundling crop insurance with certified seeds crowd-in investments? Experimental evidence from Kenya 0 0 1 12 0 1 4 46
Does conflict affect preferences? Results from field experiments in Burundi 1 1 1 203 2 2 4 716
Does financial liberalization influence saving, investment and economic growth: evidence from 25 emerging market economies, 1973-1996 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 127
Does foreign ownership Foster bank performance 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 67
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 1 44
Does uncertainty affect economic growth?: an empirical analysis 0 0 0 9 1 1 3 64
Does uncertainty affect economic growth?: an empirical analysis 0 0 0 12 0 0 2 115
Dynamics of Investment for Market-Oriented Farmers in Chile 0 0 0 26 0 0 2 85
Economic Development of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam 1 1 1 12 1 1 3 47
Financial Liberalization, Informal Credit Markets and Imperfect Information 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 170
Financial development and the transmission of monetary shocks 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 46
Financial liberalization and capital flight 0 0 1 24 0 1 3 85
Financial reform and information problems in capital markets: an empirical analysis of the Chilean experience, 1983-1992 0 0 0 9 0 1 2 30
Fiscal Policy and Private Investment in Less Developed Countries 0 0 0 106 0 0 3 283
Flight Capital and its Reversal for Development Financing 0 0 1 59 0 1 3 181
Foreign aid and the public sector: a simulation approach 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16
Foreign direct investment, financial development and economic growth 0 1 4 106 3 4 13 383
Foreign direct investment: flows, volatility and growth in developing countries 0 0 1 61 1 1 6 216
Foreign transfers and tropical deforestation: what terms of conditionality 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22
Group lending and the role of the group leader:Theory and evidence from Eritrea 0 0 0 3 0 2 3 55
Growth, financial development, societal norms and legal institutions 0 0 1 13 0 1 2 76
Impact of Access to Credit on Farm Productivity of Fruit and Vegetable Growers in Chile 0 0 0 75 1 2 5 273
Impact of microfinance: a critical survey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 172
Informal Credit Markets, deregulation and Private Investment 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 140
Investment, cash flow and uncertainty: evidence for the Netherlands 0 0 0 173 0 3 37 559
Investment, cash flow, and uncertainty: evidence for the Netherlands 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 32
Is size important for the investment-uncertainty relationship?: an empirical analyses for Dutch firms 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 70
Is the investment-uncertainty relationship non-linear?: an emperical [i.e. empirical] analysis for the Netherlands 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 28
Is there a Long Run Influence on Financial Development on Economic growth in Latin America 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 204
Is there an uncertainty-laffer curve? 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 21
It Works; It Doesn't; It Can, But that Depends...: 50 Years of Controversy Over the Macroeconomic Impact of Development Aid 0 1 2 269 2 4 12 580
Joint liability lending: a note 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
Lending policies of informal, formal and semiformal lenders: evidence from Vietnam 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 74
On signalling and debt maturity choice 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 25
Outreach and Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions 0 1 2 33 0 1 4 187
Peer monitoring, social ties and moral hazard in group lending programmes: evidence from Eritrea 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 51
Remittances and Financial Inclusion in Development 0 0 0 221 0 0 3 528
Risk behaviour and group formation in microcredit groups in Eritrea 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 21
Risk behaviour and group formation in microcredit groups in Eritrea 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 22
State capture, income and institutional quality 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 33
Stock-market efficiency in thin-trading markets: the case of the Vietnamese stock market 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 48
The Determinants of Loan Contracts to Business Firms: Empirical Evidence from a Private Bank in Vietnam 0 0 0 46 0 1 1 135
The Financial Sector and Its Influence on Economic Growth: Evidence from 14 Latin American Countries, 1963-1989 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 233
The Impact of International Remittances on Income, Work Efforts, Poverty and Inequality: Evidence from Vietnam 0 0 3 46 0 0 8 142
The determinants of capital structure: evidence from Dutch panel data 0 0 3 46 1 2 10 175
The empirics of microfinance: what do we know? 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 175
The impact of foreign bank entry on domestic banking markets: a note 0 0 1 29 1 1 10 170
The volatility of FDI, not the level, affects growth in developing countries 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 20
Trade, Capital, and the Transition in Central Europe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 159
Uncertainty and growth of the firm 0 0 0 5 0 0 4 53
Uncertainty and investment of Dutch firms: an empirical analysis using stock market data 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 16
Uncertainty, financial development and economic growth: an empirical analysis 0 0 0 4 1 2 7 31
Uptake and impact of interlinked index-based insurance with credit and agricultural inputs: experimental evidence from Ethiopia 1 1 3 53 2 2 10 136
Value performance of European bank acquisitions 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 43
Total Working Papers 3 8 31 2,462 27 70 249 10,548
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A Guideline for Contextual Adaptation of Community-Based Health Interventions 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4
A practical approach to validating a PD model 0 0 1 197 0 0 2 582
Adoption and impact of index-insurance and credit for smallholder farmers in developing countries 0 0 2 21 0 0 5 92
Aid allocation, poverty reduction and the Assessing Aid report 0 0 0 20 0 0 3 267
Aid instability as a measure of uncertainty and the positive impact of aid on growth 0 0 0 76 1 3 11 321
Allocative efficiency and financial deregulation 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 85
Ambiguity attitudes and demand for weather index insurance with and without a credit bundle: experimental evidence from Kenya 0 0 2 2 0 2 7 7
Are There Negative Returns to Aid? 0 0 6 474 0 2 15 1,387
Aspirational hope, dairy farming practices, and milk production: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Bolivia 0 0 2 3 1 1 5 18
Assessing Aid: A Manifesto for Aid in the 21st Century? 0 0 0 86 0 2 9 274
Asymmetric group loans, non-assortative matching and adverse selection 0 0 0 7 1 3 4 50
Asymmetric information, option to wait to invest and the optimal level of investment 0 0 0 28 0 1 2 180
Bank efficiency and foreign ownership: Do good institutions matter? 0 0 1 307 1 2 8 766
Banking in transition economies: does foreign ownership enhance profitability? 0 0 1 100 0 2 5 230
Banking reform and the financing of firm investment: An empirical analysis of the Chilean experience, 1983-92 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 72
Business groups, financing constraints and investment: the case of India 1 1 1 85 2 3 4 326
Capital Market Imperfections, Uncertainty and Corporate Investment in the Czech Republic 0 0 0 59 0 0 0 263
Capital account liberalization and income inequality 0 2 3 161 1 3 8 483
Capital flight and political risk 0 0 3 110 0 2 9 287
Capital flight and the uncertainty of government policies 1 1 3 86 1 1 9 277
Cash or In-kind Transfers? Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial in Delhi, India 0 0 0 35 1 1 7 91
Changing the Conditions for Development Aid: A New Paradigm? 0 0 1 412 0 1 3 1,030
Community conversations as a strategy to change harmful traditional practices against women 0 0 0 6 0 0 3 22
Controversies over the impact of development aid: it works; it doesn't; it can, but that depends … 0 0 7 910 3 8 35 2,954
Credit-linked insurance bundles in Zambia: evidence from the aftermath of a shock 1 1 1 3 2 4 5 8
Demand uncertainty and the capital-labour ratio in Poland 0 0 0 49 1 1 1 241
Do Gender and Business Trainings Affect Business Outcomes? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam 0 0 1 11 1 3 11 49
Do Powerful CEOs Determine Microfinance Performance? 0 0 0 23 0 0 1 83
Do Reforms in Transition Economies Affect Foreign Bank Entry? 0 0 0 21 0 0 2 58
Do Savings and Credit Institutions Reduce Vulnerability? New Evidence From Mexico 0 0 0 4 0 4 6 75
Do microfinance institutions benefit from integrating financial and nonfinancial services? 0 0 1 2 0 1 4 30
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 1 2
Does Group Affiliation Improve Firm Performance? The Case of Chinese State-Owned Firms 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 84
Does Microfinance Make Households More Resilient to Shocks? Evidence From the Cyclone Phailin in India 0 0 1 7 1 3 4 29
Does bundling crop insurance with certified seeds crowd-in investments? Experimental evidence from Kenya 0 0 3 4 0 2 11 22
Does foreign bank entry really stimulate gross domestic investment? 0 0 0 85 0 0 1 250
Does foreign ownership foster bank performance? 0 0 1 200 0 0 5 523
Does group affiliation increase firm value for diversified groups?: New evidence from Indian companies 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 236
Does microcredit increase aspirational hope? Evidence from a group lending scheme in Sierra Leone 1 1 5 14 1 4 10 63
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 0 1 39
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 2 3 202
Does uncertainty affect economic growth? An empirical analysis 0 0 0 49 0 1 6 238
Dutch inventory investment: are capital market imperfections relevant? 0 0 0 43 0 2 2 231
Effects of Index Insurance on Demand and Supply of Credit: Evidence from Ethiopia 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 35
Empowerment and intimate partner violence: Domestic abuse when household income is uncertain 0 0 0 5 0 0 6 33
Financial Liberalization, Foreign Aid, and Private and Public Investment 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 70
Financial Literacy and Financial Behaviour: Experimental Evidence from Rural Rwanda 1 1 3 65 1 2 8 215
Financial liberalization and economic growth: A meta-analysis 0 0 1 179 1 1 11 638
Financial repression and fiscal policy 0 0 0 48 0 0 0 117
Financial system development in transition economies 0 0 1 217 0 3 5 554
Foreign Bank Presence, Domestic Bank Performance and Financial Development 0 0 1 22 1 1 4 75
Foreign Banks and Economic Transition 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Foreign Direct Investment: Flows, Volatility, and the Impact on Growth* 0 4 11 277 2 11 29 611
Foreign Transfers and Tropical Deforestation: What Terms of Conditionality? 0 0 0 34 1 3 3 184
Foreign direct investment, financial development and economic growth 2 6 29 1,324 6 26 105 3,476
Foreign exchange constraints and developing countries 0 0 0 52 0 2 4 220
Gender training and female empowerment: Experimental evidence from Vietnam 0 0 1 47 0 2 5 148
Group lending and the role of the group leader 0 0 0 20 0 1 1 81
Group lending with correlated project outcomes 0 0 0 16 0 0 1 79
Growth, financial development, societal norms and legal institutions* 0 0 0 84 0 1 3 669
Household Borrowing in Vietnam 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 46
How did COVID affect savings and wealth? An empirical study in South Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4
Impacts of the Gender and Entrepreneurship Together Ahead (GET Ahead) training on empowerment of female microfinance borrowers in Northern Vietnam 0 1 1 35 2 3 4 174
Infant and child mortality in developing countries: Analysing the data for Robust determinants 0 0 1 307 0 1 2 1,091
Institutions and Bank Performance: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis 0 0 0 24 0 1 2 88
International diversification and Microfinance 0 0 1 101 0 1 4 332
Is the uncertainty-investment link non-linear? Empirical evidence for developed economies 0 0 0 30 1 1 2 100
Joint Liability Lending and the Peer Selection Effect 0 0 0 123 0 0 2 319
Legal Restrictions and Investment Growth 0 0 0 28 0 0 2 95
Lending policies of informal, formal and semiformal lenders 0 0 1 94 0 2 6 355
Liquidity Constraints and Willingness to Pay for Solar Lamps and Water Filters in Jakarta 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 34
Liquidity constraints, informal institutions, and the adoption of weather insurance: A randomized controlled Trial in Ethiopia 0 0 0 24 1 3 8 135
Liquidity defaults and progressive lending in microfinance: A lab‐in‐the field experiment in Bolivia 0 0 2 7 0 1 5 24
Loan Officers' Gender and Microfinance Repayment Rates 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 55
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 3 498
Measuring the impact of an ongoing microcredit project: evidence from a study in Ghana 0 0 1 7 1 1 2 17
Microfinance: Its Impact, Outreach, and Sustainability 3 5 13 579 9 17 45 1,777
Monetary transmission and bank competition in the EMU 0 0 1 99 0 0 3 257
Official finance requirements in the 1990s 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 67
On signalling and debt maturity choice 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
On the Signalling Role of Debt Maturity 0 0 0 44 0 0 2 153
On the signalling property of debt maturity: empirical evidence from a private bank in Vietnam 0 0 0 15 0 1 2 83
Outreach and Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions 1 2 12 505 4 9 48 1,571
Ownership and technical efficiency of microfinance institutions: Empirical evidence from Latin America 0 1 4 89 0 4 11 317
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 1 1 2 4 1 1 6 12
Peer Monitoring, Social Ties and Moral Hazard in Group Lending Programs: Evidence from Eritrea 0 0 5 123 0 0 8 398
Political connections and household access to bank loans: evidence from China 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2
Provisioning over the business cycle: Some insights from the microfinance industry 0 0 2 4 1 2 6 23
Randomized interventions and “real” treatment effects: A cautionary tale and an example 0 0 1 12 0 1 2 26
Religion, social desirability bias and financial inclusion: Evidence from a list experiment on Islamic (micro-)finance 0 0 3 5 1 2 9 19
Risk and ambiguity aversion behavior in index-based insurance uptake decisions: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia 0 1 5 14 1 5 14 53
Short- and Medium-term Impacts of Employability Training: Evidence from a Randomised Field Experiment in Rwanda 1 2 6 9 1 3 15 19
Slavery, Statehood, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 1 4 111 2 4 16 340
Social and financial exclusion: the role of microfinance 0 0 1 82 0 0 3 196
State capture, income and institutional quality 0 0 0 37 0 1 1 106
Stock-market efficiency in thin-trading markets: the case of the Vietnamese stock market 0 0 0 47 1 4 10 188
The Credit Constraints of Market-Oriented Farmers in Chile 0 0 1 4 0 1 4 15
The Effect of Financial Liberalization on Capital Flight in African Economies 1 1 5 127 1 2 7 362
The Impact of Social and Financial Education on Savings Attitudes and Behavior Among Primary School Children in Uganda 0 0 3 15 2 4 19 69
The Impact of Trade Credit on Customer Switching Behaviour: Evidence from the Tanzanian Rice Market 0 0 0 16 0 0 3 121
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 2 418
The Inverted-U hypothesis for the effect of uncertainty on investment: Evidence from UK firms 0 0 0 83 1 2 4 1,136
The Option to Wait to Invest and Equilibrium Credit Rationing 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 308
The Origins of Optimism: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment among Microfinance Clients in Bolivia 1 1 1 3 2 2 5 9
The Plus in Credit-Plus-Technical Assistance: Evidence from a Rural Microcredit Programme in Bolivia 0 0 1 5 0 2 9 17
The allocative efficiency of the formal versus the informal financial sector 0 0 0 45 0 1 2 142
The determinants of trade credit use: the case of the Tanzanian rice market 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 66
The double bottom line of microfinance: A global comparison between conventional and Islamic microfinance 2 3 7 23 8 12 29 112
The empirics of microfinance: what do we know? 0 0 0 480 0 0 4 1,054
The impact of a gender and business training on income hiding: An experimental study in Vietnam 0 0 1 15 0 1 4 94
The impact of microcredit on self‐employment profits in Vietnam 0 0 1 48 1 2 4 126
The impact of privatization on firm performance in a transition economy: The case of Vietnam 0 0 1 99 1 1 5 285
The impact of work and non‐work migration on household welfare, poverty and inequality 0 0 0 44 0 1 2 122
The short-term effects of foreign bank entry on domestic bank behaviour: Does economic development matter? 0 0 4 371 1 1 10 876
Trade credit use and competition in the value chain 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 42
Uncertainty and Financing Constraints 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 30
Uncertainty and Growth of the Firm 0 0 0 44 0 0 2 212
Uptake, use, and impact of Islamic savings: Evidence from a field experiment in Pakistan1 0 0 0 1 2 4 11 25
Value performance of European bank acquisitions 0 0 0 20 0 0 1 61
Violent Conflict and Behavior: A Field Experiment in Burundi 1 1 4 230 1 3 16 761
What Can We Learn from Impact Evaluations&quest 0 0 0 36 0 0 0 66
Why agricultural insurance may slow down agricultural development 0 0 2 6 1 1 8 20
Women's empowerment and domestic abuse: Experimental evidence from Vietnam 2 3 16 127 3 8 47 453
Total Journal Articles 20 40 206 10,972 82 239 872 35,714
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Advanced Introduction to Financial Inclusion 0 0 0 0 3 11 29 68
Investment, Capital Market Imperfections, and Uncertainty 0 0 1 56 0 4 9 160
Total Books 0 0 1 56 3 15 38 228


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Capital Flight: The Key Issues 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 48
Does financial liberalization accentuate financial instability? 0 0 2 7 0 0 4 13
Does microfinance cause banking sector development and economic growth? An application to Mongolia 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 12
Fintech and Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries 0 0 0 2 0 6 22 66
Governance and Microfinance Institutions 0 1 3 22 0 3 7 101
Remittances and International Trade in Africa 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 6
Social Investment in Microfinance: The Trade-Off Between Risk, Return and Outreach to the Poor 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 32
The coexistence of formal and informal finance: new evidence from the use of trade finance by farmers in Chile 1 1 2 10 2 2 8 29
Total Chapters 1 2 7 62 3 13 52 307


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