Tag Search: “banking”
Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured
Agricultural activity is inherently risky, and smoothing consumption across years or seasons is a significant challenge for agrarian households in developing countries.
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Mushfiq Mobarak
Mark Rosenzweig
01 November, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Does Foreign Institutional Investment in India Increase Financial Vulnerability? An Empirical Investigation Using an Event Study Approach
Emerging market policymakers are concerned about the effects of foreign portfolio flows on financial stability. Do tail events in the home country trigger off extreme responses by foreign investors an...
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Ila Patnaik
Jean Paul Rabanal
Ajay Shah
Nirvikar Singh
31 October, 2011
- IGC Research on India
State Ownership and Systemic Risk: Evidence from the Indian Financial Sector During 2007-09
The study analyses the performance of banks in India during 2007-09 in order to study the impact of ownership structure on bank vulnerability to a crisis.
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Viral Acharya
Nirupama Kulkarni
01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Improving Access to and Measuring the Impact of Public Health Insurance in India
This project aims to add to the broad literature on improving the quality of public services by looking at the effect of providing incentives to agents for spreading information regarding a government...
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Erlend Berg
Maitreesh Ghatak
D Rajasekhar
Sanchari Roy
01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Improving Access to and Measuring the Impact of Public Health Insurance in India
This project aims to add to the broad literature on improving the quality of public services by looking at the effect of providing incentives to agents for spreading information regarding a government...
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Erlend Berg
Maitreesh Ghatak
D Rajasekhar
Sanchari Roy
01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Improving Access to Finance for Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries
One of the most important issues in developing countries is how to finance small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Although microcredit and new forms of financial inclusion are increasingly prominent in ...
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Shawn Cole
Leora Klapper
31 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Long Run-Effects of Repayment Flexibility in Microfinance: Evidence from India
Financiers across the world structure debt contracts to limit the risk of entrepreneurial lending. But debt structures that reduce risk may inhibit enterprise growth, especially among the poor.
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Erica Field
Rohini Pande
John Papp
Natalia Rigol
01 February, 2010
- IGC Research on India