Lending technologies, competition and consolidation in the market for microfinance in Bolivia

By Sergio Navajas, J. Conning, C. González-Vega. 2003

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Competition and the performance of microfinance institutions (2013, unknown): “Navajas et al. (2003) study competition in the Bolivian microfinance market, focusing on two major MFIs, BancoSol and Caja Los Andes, which together cover around 40% of the total market.”
The supply- and demand-side impacts of credit market information (2010, background): “Microfinance markets provide a particularly interesting environment in which to study the impact of this formalization, both because of the rapid creation of bureaus in recent years and because microfinance provides a continuous range of contracts across which informal and formalized tools are inter”
How Rising Competition Among Microfinance Institutions Affects Incumbent Lenders (2005, background): “How should asset holdings affect the probability of dropout under competition? To draw a direct parallel to Navajas et al. (2002), FINCA, like Bancosol in Bolivia, offers a ‘One for All’ contract and lets the joint liability mechanism conduct its screening.”
Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries (2005, unknown): “…competition between potential financial providers may end up ‘crowding out’ or shrinking the size of financial markets (Arnott and Stiglitz 1991; Kranton and Swamy 1999; Hoff and Stiglitz 1997; Navajas, Conning, and Gonzalez-Vega 2003; Wydick and Mcintosh 2004; Jain 1999; 68 Ray and Sengupta 1989).”