Credit and Microfinance
- The course uses the principal-agent framework to analyse the information problems associated with lending to the poor. You will find that the lecture notes deal with issues in greater detail and complement the lecture slides. There are suggestions for an essay and a problem based supervision below.
Course Outline and Reading list
Course Material in Manuscript form
Lecture Slides
| Slides | Lecture 1 |
|---|---|
| Slides | Lecture 2 |
| Slides | Lecture 3 |
| Slides | Lecture 4 |
Lecture Notes
| Notes | Lecture 1 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Lecture 2 |
| Notes | Lecture 3 |
| Notes | Lecture 4 |
Supervisions
| Supervision 1 | Essay |
|---|---|
| Supervision 2 | Problems |
References
- Papers Aleem 1990 Aniket 2007a Aniket 2007b Besley & Coate 1995
- Dercon 2004 de Mezza &
Webb Eswaran & Kotwal 1990 Ghatak 1999
- Ghatak 2000 Ghatak & Guinnane 1999 Ghosh Mookherjee & Ray
- Jain & Mansuri 2003 Morduch 1999 Sjostrom & Rai 2005 Stiglitz 1990
- Stiglitz & Weiss 1981 Udry 1990 Besley and Aghion & Morduch