The cost of ownership in microfinance organizations

By Roy Mersland. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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The Microfinance Business Model: Enduring Subsidy and Modest Profit (2016, background): “It also compares the benefits of microcredit found in the 5 Indeed, transformed MFIs may lose access to various types of subsidies, including grants (Mersland 2009; D’Espallier, Hudon, and Szafarz 2013).”
Performance and governance in microfinance institutions (2009, background): “The incentive problems between owners and managers may be more pronounced in NPOs, but NPOs have the compensatory benefit of reducing adverse selection of customers and avoiding moral hazard (Hansmann, 1996; Desrochers and Fischer, 2002; Mersland, 2009 ) because they are better able to tap into loc”
Focus on Women in Microfinance Institutions (2013, methodology): “15 invariant and has been used in the microfinance context in a recent paper by Lensink and Mersland (2009).”
Unsubsidized Microfinance Institutions (2013, background): “ization (Cull et al., 2007;Mersland, 2009).”
Women and Repayment in Microfinance: A Global Analysis (2011, methodology): “This finding is in line with Mersland and Strøm (2008), who find that performance differences between NGOs and nonNGOs are minimal, and Mersland and Strøm (2009a), who demonstrate that group lending”
Which Governance Mechanisms Promote Efficiency in Reaching Poor Clients? Evidence from Rated Microfinance Institutions (2012, unknown): “They operate as regulated or unregulated, and are registered as non-governmental organizations (NGOs), private banks, non-bank financial institutions, or member-owned cooperatives with various costs of ownership (Mersland, 2009).”
Audit Quality and Corporate Governance: Evidence from the Microfinance Industry (2012, unknown): “…frequently registered as either commercial banks or non-bank financial institutions; non-profit organizations that are often referred to as non-governmental organizations (NGOs); or formally registered, memberbased organizations, such as savings and credit cooperatives (SACCOs) (Mersland, 2009).”
Do Powerful CEOs Determine Microfinance Performance (2012, background): “claim to focus on social objectives as well, but ownership pressures (Mersland, 2009), their”