... supply IV approach Information asymmetry Microfinance institutions Credit applicants Endogeneity The failure of agricultural and development banks in the 1980s encouraged microfinance’s emergence in economic liberalization to improve users' social and economic performance, specifically low...

... Oliver Musshoff Department for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany Access to credit Agricultural finance Agriculture Credit Loan repayment Loans Microfinance institutions Tanzania...

...Ron Weber; Oliver Musshoff Purpose Using a unique dataset of a commercial microfinance institution (MFI) in Madagascar, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how credit access probabilities and loan volume rationing magnitudes for farmers change if the MFI switches to offer flexible...

...Ron Weber; Oliver Musshoff Purpose Using a unique dataset of a commercial microfinance institution (MFI) in Tanzania, the purpose of this paper is to investigate first whether agricultural firms have a different probability to get a loan and whether their loans are differently volume rationed than...

... to promote a viable microfinance industry. The paper concludes by describing some current challenges faced by the industry and offers a possible research agenda for agricultural economists. Financial institutions Microfinance Microfinance institutions Poverty Rural finance © Emerald Group...

...Manfred Zeller This paper describes different types of rural microfinance institutions, and examines their comparative advantages as well as related challenges to and strategies for deepening rural financial systems. The focus is not about which type of institution is better or worse...

..., by focusing on Financial Service Associations, a specific form of microfinance institution, the effectiveness of such institutions is found to be very sensitive to the behavioral motivations of both clientele and provider, as well as the social norms upon which such transactions take place. Contract...