Competition, Loan Rates, and Information Dispersion in Nonprofit and For-Profit Microcredit Markets
Autor: | Andréas Heinen, Malika Hamadi, Guillermo Baquero |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
Microfinance 050208 finance Actuarial science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Monetary economics Interest rate law.invention Competition (economics) Spillover effect law Loan Accounting 0502 economics and business For profit Statistical dispersion Business 050207 economics Finance media_common |
Zdroj: | Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. 50:893-937 |
ISSN: | 0022-2879 |
Popis: | We describe the competitive environment of microcredit markets globally and we study the effects of competition on loan rates of microfinance institutions (MFIs). We use a new database from rating agencies, covering 379 for-profit and nonprofit MFIs in 67 countries over 2002-2008. Controlling for interest rate ceilings and other countryspecific factors, we first find that nonprofits are relatively insensitive to industry-wide concentration changes, while for-profits charge significantly lower rates in less concentrated markets. Second, we find spillover effects between the for-profit and nonprofit segments. Third, we show that the effects of concentration are consistent with an information dispersion mechanism. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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