Outreach and Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions

By N. Hermes, Robert Lensink, A. Meesters. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Information Systems

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Scale economies and input price elasticities in microfinance institutions (2013, positive): “In this paper, we follow Caudill et al. (2009) and Hermes et al. (2011) and use their modified approach.”
Microfinance, the long tail and mission drift (2014, background): “The mission drift topic has been studied by Copestake (2007), Cull et al (2007), Mersland and Strøm (2010), Armendáriz and Szafarz (2011) and Hermes et al (2011).”
Microfinance: its Impact, Outreach and Sustainability (2011, background): “Hermes, Lensink, and Meesters (2011) provide new evidence on the existence of the trade-off between sustainability and outreach, using data for 435 MFI for the period 1997–2007.”
Bankers at the gate: Microfinance and the high cost of borrowed logics (2012, background): “…collects data and disseminates information on microfinance institutions and has been relied on by a number of academics in the fields such as management, economics, and development (e.g. Ayayi & Sene, 2010; Hermes et al., 2011; Hoque, Chishty, & Halloway, 2011) in conducting peer-reviewed research.”
Microfinance and economic development (2017, background): “…of microfinance institutions themselves, broader supervisory approaches within the financial sector, and competition from other providers of financial services, which all affect the development of 11 microfinance (see, for example, Ahlin et al. 2011, McIntosh and Wydick 2005, Hermes et al. 2011).”
Social and financial efficiency of Islamic microfinance institutions:a Data Envelopment Analysis application (2015, background): “Studies by Hermes and Lensink (2011), von Pischke (1996), Mersland and Strøm (2008), Hermes et al. (2011) and others also focused on this trade-off.”
Is financial inclusion good for bank stability? International evidence (2017, background): “…a survey in Pasalı, 2013). servicing, monitoring and administering loans to individual households and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) who often lack required documentations, collaterals and credit histories (e.g., Conning, 1999; Demirgüç-Kunt et al., 2008, henchforth DBH; Hermes et al., 2011).”