An evaluation of financial institutions: Impact on consumption and investment using panel data and the theory of risk-bearing

The theory of the optimal allocation of risk and the Townsend Thai panel data on financial transactions are used to assess the impact of the major formal and informal financial institutions of an emerging market economy. We link financial institution assessment to the actual impact on clients, rathe...

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Main Authors: Alem, Mauro, Townsend, Robert M., Townsend, Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112207
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1528-8102

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