Peer monitoring, social ties and moral hazard in group lending programmes: evidence from Eritrea

By N. Hermes, Robert Lensink, Habteab Mehrteab Teki. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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1. Christian Ahlin
2. Mobin Fatma
3. Imran Khan
4. Izaskun Agirre Aramburu
5. Zillur Rahman
6. Irune Gómez Pescador
7. Robert M. Townsend
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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Susanna Khavul
2. Christian Ahlin
3. Mobin Fatma
4. Imran Khan
5. Izaskun Agirre Aramburu
6. Zillur Rahman
7. Irune Gómez Pescador
8. Robert M. Townsend

In Management Information Systems

1. Christian Ahlin
2. Mobin Fatma
3. Imran Khan
4. Zillur Rahman
5. Susanna Khavul

Citations in the corpus

• Microfinance: Creating Opportunities for the Poor? (2010, background): “Hermes, Lensink, and Mehrteab (2005) found that group leaders in Eritrean microfinancing groups mattered more in overcoming the moral hazard problem than other group members.”
• The Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility on Customer Loyalty: The Mediating Effect of Reputation in Cooperative Banks Versus Commercial Banks in the Basque Country (2017, background): “2009) and implementing CSR at a practical level with initiatives such as financial inclusion (Decker 2004), microcredit schemes for the deprived (Hermes et al. 2005) and socially responsible banking (Scholtens 2009).”
• Using Repayment Data to Test Across Models of Joint Liability Lending (2007, background): “26 Hermes et al. (2005) find evidence that stronger monitoring by the group leader, but not by group members, mitigates moral hazard.”
• Multi-Item Stakeholder Based Scale to Measure CSR in the Banking Industry (2014, methodology): “…et al., 2009; Marin and Ruiz, 2009) by implementing CSR into practices with initiatives such as financial inclusion (Decker, 2004), microcredit schemes for the deprived (Hermes et al., 2005), socially responsible banking (Scholtens, 2009) and credit access to the poor (Prior and Argandona, 2008).”
• THE EMPIRICS OF MICROFINANCE: WHAT DO WE KNOW? (2007, unknown): “Hermes et al. (2005) elaborate on this last result and investigate the role of the group leader in reducing moral hazard behaviour, using data of 102 groups from two Eritrean group lending programmes.”