Economies of scope for microfinance: Differences across output measures

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 464-481

  Hartarska, Valentina ^a   Parmeter, Christopher F ^b   Nadolnyak, Denis ^a   Zhu, Beibei ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; LENDING BEHAVIOR; MICROFINANCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77957112080     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: 14680106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2010.00516.x     Document Type: Article

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