Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline
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Keywords
microfinance; flexible repayment; ex-post moral hazard; social norms; peer punishment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
- D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
- G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2020-07-27 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-MFD-2020-07-27 (Microfinance)
- NEP-SEA-2020-07-27 (South East Asia)
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