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1by Maitreesh Ghatak Published in The World Bank economic review (01.01.2015)“...In this paper we provide a conceptual overview of alternative mechanisms leading to poverty traps at the individual level, making a distinction between those...”
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2“...A unifying theme in the literature on organizations such as public bureaucracies and private nonprofits is the importance of mission, as opposed to profit, as...”
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3“...This paper addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialization ought to be compensated...”
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4by Timothy Besley Maitreesh Ghatak Published in American economic journal. Economic policy (01.08.2017)“...When social benefits cannot be measured, an organization that selects managers based on pro-social motivation can be used to balance profits with a social...”
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5by de Quidt, Jonathan Fetzer, Thiemo Ghatak, Maitreesh Published in Journal of development economics (01.07.2016)“...This paper contrasts individual liability lending with and without groups to joint liability lending. We are motivated by an apparent shift away from the use...”
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6by Quidt, Jonathan Fetzer, Thiemo Ghatak, Maitreesh Published in The Economic journal (London) (01.05.2018)“...Motivated by recent controversies surrounding the role of commercial lenders in microfinance, and calls for regulation of the sector, we analyse borrower...”
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8“...This review explores the role of incentives in providing goods and services that have significant social returns not captured in private returns, and where...”
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9“...This paper argues that the possibility of bailouts to financial intermediaries distorts the supply price of capital and creates an argument for taxing...”
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10by Ghatak, Maitreesh Published in Journal of development economics (1999)“...This paper analyzes how group lending programs use joint liability to utilize local information that borrowers have about each other's projects through...”
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11by Ghatak, Maitreesh Karaivanov, Alexander Published in Journal of development economics (01.09.2014)“...We analyze optimal contractual forms and equilibrium matching in a double-sided moral hazard model of sharecropping similar to Eswaran and Kotwal (1985). We...”
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12by Berg, Erlend Ghatak, Maitreesh Manjula, R Rajasekhar, D Roy, Sanchari Published in The Economic journal (London) (2019)“...This paper studies the interaction of incentive pay and social distance\ud in the dissemination of information. We analyse theoretically as well as\ud...”
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13by Maitreesh Ghatak Published in The Economic journal (London) (01.07.2000)“...We look at an economic environment where borrowers have some information about the nature of each other's projects that lenders do not. We show that...”
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14“...In this article, we review the desirability and feasibility of a universal basic income (UBI) scheme from the theoretical point of view. We first discuss the...”
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15by Aney, Madhav S Ghatak, Maitreesh Morelli, Massimo Published in Journal of monetary economics (01.08.2016)“...We study how an excessively favorable regulatory environment for banks could arise even with a perfectly competitive credit market in a median voter world. In...”
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16by Timothy J. Besley Konrad B. Burchardi Maitreesh Ghatak Published in The Quarterly journal of economics (01.02.2012)“...This paper explores the consequences of improving property rights to facilitate the use of fixed assets as collateral, popularly attributed to the influential...”
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17“...There has been a dramatic change in the division of responsibility between the state and the private sector for the delivery of public goods and services in...”
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18“...Trade liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s has been associated with a sharp increase in the skill premium in both developed and developing countries. This is...”
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19by QUIDT, Jonathan GHATAK, Maitreesh Published in Annals of public and cooperative economics (01.03.2018)“...ABSTRACT The bulk of the literature on microcredit has focused on either not‐for‐profit lenders or assumes a perfectly competitive, zero‐profit market...”
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20“...This paper discusses a theoretical framework to study the issues of competition and incentives without relying on the standard profit-oriented 'market' model...”