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Lecture Notes

• Introduction
   

• The Complete Markets Benchmark
   

• Contracting Under Asymmetric Information and Imperfect Enforcement
   

• Rural Financial Intermediaries

  • Moneylenders as Active Monitors
     

  • Student Presentation:
    Gine (2011): presented by Tishara Garg
     

• Micro Finance

  • Introduction and Peer Monitoring
     

  • Student Presentations:
    Ghatak (2000): presented by Kosha Modi
    Besley and Coate (1995): presented by Kosha Modi
    Roy Chowdhury (2007): presented by Rajat Seth
     

• Social Networks and Informal Institutions

  • Student Presentation:
    Banerjee and Newman (1998): presented by Vasundhara Mallick
     

• Property Rights and Credit Market

  • Student Presentation:
    Besley, Burchardi and Ghatak (2012): presented by Shresth Garg
     

• Credit Market Imperfections and Poverty Traps

  • Student Presentation:
    Piketty (1997): presented by Pallavi Jindal
     

• Financial Structure in Formal Credit Markets

  • Student Presentation:
    Holmstorm and Tirole (1997): presented by Vageesha Baiwala
     

• Interaction of Formal and Informal Credit Markets

  • Student Presentations:
    Tressel (2003): presented by Sumit Goel
    Madestam (2014): presented by Mudit Dhakar
    Lilienfeld-Toal, Mookherjee and Visaria (2012): presented by Senjuti Patra
    Burgess and Pande (2005): presented by Prerna Dewan
    Cole (2009): presented by Prerna Dewan
     

Last Updated on 21 April 2017.