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Selection of Borrowing Partners in Joint-Liability-Based Microcredit: Evidence from Framed Field Experiments in Bangladesh

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  • Sugato Chakravarty

    (Purdue University)

  • Abu Zafar Md Shahriar

    (Monash University, Australia)

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We examine partner selection decision in the formation of borrowing group in joint-liability-based microcredit. We do so within the context of framed field experiments conducted in Bangladesh. We find that when joint-liability payments are made using money from the borrower’s mandatory savings account, risky borrowers display a willingness to offer side payments that are sufficiently large o attract safe borrowers to form groups. Many important theoretical results in microcredit are based solely on the assumption of homogeneous risk-matched borrowing groups. Therefore, we argue that it is important to allow for the likelihood of heterogeneous risk-matched groups in theoretical research.

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  • Sugato Chakravarty & Abu Zafar Md Shahriar, 2013. "Selection of Borrowing Partners in Joint-Liability-Based Microcredit: Evidence from Framed Field Experiments in Bangladesh," Working Papers 1016, Purdue University, Department of Consumer Sciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:csr:wpaper:1016
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