Can Microfinance Reduce Portfolio Volatility?
By Nicolas A. Krauss, I. Walter. Economic development and cultural change, 2009
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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems
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- Do microfinance institutions accomplish their mission? Evidence from the relationship between traditional financial sector development and microfinance institutions’ outreach and performance (2013, background): “Recently, a number of studies (see Gonzalez, 2007a; Krauss and Walter, 2008; Ahlin et al., 2011; among others), have explicitly investigated the relationship between MFIs’ performance and changes in the macro environment of the country in which they operate.”
- The Vulnerability of Microfinance to Financial Turmoil – Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis (2013, background): “…in the domestic and international financial system seemed to isolate microfinance from turmoil in traditional financial sectors (Patten et al. 2001, Krauss and Walter 2009, Gonzalez 2007, Galema et al. 2011).1 As a result, until recently (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision 2010, Dittus and…”
- The institutional context of poverty: State fragility as a predictor of cross‐national variation in commercial microfinance lending (2014, background): “Yet, commercial investors, who tend to appreciate microfinance more for its advantages as an asset class than for its ability to help the poor (Callaghan, et al., 2007; Krauss and Walter, 2009), are unlikely to put their money into uncertain and risky.”
- Which Governance Mechanisms Promote Efficiency in Reaching Poor Clients? Evidence from Rated Microfinance Institutions (2012, unknown): “…the argument that microfinance is less influenced by the macroeconomic environment, since it applies different loan methodologies, the institutions are often operated by non-profits, and they serve more customers operating in the informal sector than do regular banks (Krauss and Walter, 2008).”
- Where does microfinance flourish? Microfinance institution performance in macroeconomic context (2011, unknown): “rors and confidence intervals for both the median and robust regressions, clustering the bootstrap by institution.(25) This approach does not require homoskedasticity or error terms to be independent within MFIs.”