This piece of research is joint work with Hannes-Felix Müller (Barcelona GSE) and Tim Besley (LSE). It sheds light on the impact of violence on world trade by etimating the effect of piracy attacks on shipping costs. We construct a unique data set on shipping contracts in the dry bulk market, that is vessels mainly …
This paper tries to study the recent Indian crisis of the microfinance sector. The paper is part of a sequence of papers on microfinance. This paper in particular tries to analyze the events and regulatory environment that were conducive to the development of a bubble in the microfinance sector. Furthermore, we review the current theoretical …
This piece of research highlights the role of social networking facilities on the crowdsourcing of microfinance. It this is a project at the intersection between economics and marketing. The aim is to answer the following question: Is individual lending behavior affected by the behavior of ones peers? This is an important question in the broad …