Which Microfinance Institutions Are Becoming More Cost Effective with Time? Evidence from a Mixture Model

By Steven B. Caudill *, Daniel Gropper, Valentina Hartarska. 2009

218 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

• Unsubsidized Microfinance Institutions (2013, background): “In contrast, Caudill et al. (2009) find that lower subsidies are associated with tougher cost management.”
• Which Governance Mechanisms Promote Efficiency in Reaching Poor Clients? Evidence from Rated Microfinance Institutions (2012, unknown): “Within the cost function, we measure output by the number of clients served in order to capture the outreach objective of serving as many poor clients as possible (see Caudill et al., 2009).”