Performance and trade-offs in microfinance organisations--does ownership matter?

By Roy Mersland, R. O. Strøm. 2008

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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Audit Quality and Corporate Governance: Evidence from the Microfinance Industry (2012, unknown): “Mersland and Strøm (2008) are unable to find a relationship between ownership type and the performance of an MFI.”
Women and Repayment in Microfinance: A Global Analysis (2011, result): “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 has only a limited effect on repayment.”
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.”
Do microfinance institutions accomplish their mission? Evidence from the relationship between traditional financial sector development and microfinance institutions’ outreach and performance (2013, methodology): “Furthermore, by taking into account more than 1000 institutions, our dataset is larger than studies as Cull et al. (2007, 2009) and Hermes et al. (2009) who also use MIX data and those that use rated MFIs, such as Mersland and Strøm (2008, 2009, 2010) and Gutiérriez-Nieto et al. (2007).”
The Profit Orientation of Microfinance Institutions and Effective Interest Rates (2013, background): “Some commentators clearly place emphasis on the anti‐poverty orientation of MFIs: “the first goal of MFIs is to reach more clients in the poorer strata of the population, and the second goal is financial sustainability (Mersland & Strøm, 2008a, pg. 663).””
Which Governance Mechanisms Promote Efficiency in Reaching Poor Clients? Evidence from Rated Microfinance Institutions (2012, unknown): “However, Mersland and Strøm (2008) find a minimal difference in performance between shareholder-owned MFIs and other MFIs, and Herrmann and Frank (2002) provide similar evidence for foundation-owned firms versus private firms in Germany.”
Performance and governance in microfinance institutions (2009, background): “However, Mersland and Strøm (2008) find that SHFs and NPOs perform equally well.”