Interest rates in group lending: A behavioural investigation

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 185-199

  Abbink, Klaus ^a   Irlenbusch, Bernd ^b   Renner, Elke ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; INTEREST RATE; MICROFINANCE;

EID: 33744904501     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: 14680106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2006.00309.x     Document Type: Article

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