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Giorgia Barboni is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Warwick, Warwick Business School. Before joining the University of Warwick, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Her research interests are in development finance, behavioural economics, and household finance. Giorgia's work focuses on innovations in financial contracts and their impact on business growth and households' financial decisions. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa (Italy).
Posts by Giorgia Barboni
Using contract price to identify ‘right’ clients for flexible microfinance
While repayment flexibility in microfinance helps mitigate the impact of negative income shocks on MSMEs, it might increase default due to borrowers’ time-inconsistent or excessively risky behaviour...
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Giorgia Barboni
Arjun Malhotra
27 August, 2020
- Articles
Covid-19 and debt moratorium conundrum: The case of microfinance
Given the extent of liquidity shock caused by Covid-19, the Reserve Bank of India enabled all lending institutions to provide their borrowers with a repayment moratorium on term loans until 31 Augus...
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Giorgia Barboni
Misha Sharma
02 July, 2020
- Perspectives