Microfinance Management and Governance

Session 1:

Sugato Chakravarty and Abu Zafar Shahriar – Relationship Lending in Microcredit: Evidence from Bangladesh  [PDF]
Discussant: Rob Alessi

Moise Sagamba, Oleg Shchetinin and Nurmukhammad Yusupov – What Drives the Microloans Allocation? Evidence from a Choice Experiment with Microloan Officers in Burundi  [PDF]
Discussant: Bert d’Espallier

Session 2:

Koen Rossel-Cambier – Do Multiple Financial Services Enhance the Poverty Outreach of Microfinance Institutions?  [PDF]
Discussant: Ariane Szafarz

Isabelle Agier and Ariane Szafarz – Microfinance and Gender: Is There a Glass Ceiling in Loan Size?  [PDF]
Discussant: R. Øystein Strøm

Session 3a:

Carlos Serrano-Cinca, Begoña Gutiérrez-Nieto and Juan Camón-Cala – A Decision Support System for Social Credit Scoring  [PDF]
Discussant: Ben Soltane Bassem

Djamchid Assadi and Arvind Ashta – Trust as a Governance Mechanism in Online Lending and Microfinance  [PDF]
Discussant: Marek Hudon

Session 3b:

Pablo Cotler and Deyanira Almazan – What Drives Lending Interest Rates in the Microfinance Sector?  [PDF]
Discussant: Anais Perilleux

Roselia Servin Juarez, Robert Lensink and Marrit van den Berg – The Impact of Profit Orientation on Efficiency and Productivity of MFIs: Evidence from Latin America  [PDF]
Discussant: Sugato Chakravarty

Session 4a:

R. Øystein Strøm, Bert d’Espallier and Roy Mersland – Gender, Performance and Governance in Microfinance Institutions  [PDF]
Discussant: Rients Galema

Marek Hudon and Anais Perilleux – What Explains Microfinance Distribution Surplus?  [PDF] A Stakeholder-oriented Approach  [PDF]
Discussant: Aljar Meesters

 Surplus Distribution in Microfinance: Does Ownership Matter?

Session 4b:

Tomek Katzur and Robert Lensink – The Role of Joint Liability Contracts and Guarantor Contracts in Microfinance  [PDF]
Discussant: Nurmukhammad Yusupov

Ben Soltane Bassem – Governance Quality and MFIs Repayment Performance  [PDF]
Discussant: Niels Hermes

Session 5a:

Leif Atle Beisland and Roy Mersland – Earnings Quality in the Microfinance Industry  [PDF]
Discussant: to be announced

Neema Mori and Roy Mersland – Boards in Microfinance Organizations: Do Stakeholders Matter?
Discussant: Niels Hermes

Session 5b:

Alvaro Reyes and Robert Lensink – Interaction between Formal and Informal Rural Credit Institutions in Central Chile  [PDF]
Discussant: Pablo Cotler

Roy Mersland and R. Øystein Strøm – The Past and Future of Innovations in Microfinance  [PDF]
Discussant: Begoña Gutiérrez-Nieto

Session 6a:

Anais Perilleux – Microfinance Development: Financial Cooperatives and Banks, complements or substitutes?  [PDF]
Discussant: Dirk Bezemer

Esubalew Assefa, Niels Hermes and Aljar Meesters – Microfinance and Competition: A Cross-country Analysis
Discussant: To be announced

Session 6b:

Bert d’Espallier, Roy Mersland and Magne Supphellen – The Effect of Religion on Development Efforts: Evidence from the Microfinance Industry  [PDF]
Discussant: Koen Rossel-Cambier

Rients Galema – Debt Enforcement and Microfinance Risk Taking  [PDF]
Discussant: Roy Mersland

Session 7

Christophe Villa and Nurmukhammad Yusupov – Modern Microfinance: Cross Sector Partnerships with Motivated Agents  [PDF]
Discussant: Robert Lensink

General discussion, concluding remarks and closing of the workshop