This page contains the following:

I.   BASIS Research Papers
II.  Rural Finance Research Papers
III. Dissertations
IV. Complete List of Working Papers and Publications

 

I.  BASIS Research Papers

-Poverty, Structural Transformation, and Land Use in El Salvador: Learning from Household Panel Data
Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, Jorge Rodriguez-Meza, Douglas Southgate, and Jorge H. Maldonado
August 2004

-Rural Poverty, Household Responses to Adverse Shocks, and Agricultural Land Use:  Panel Results for El Salvador
Jorge Rodriguez-Meza, Douglas Southgate, and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega
April 2003

- Deepening Rural Financial Markets:  Macroeconomic, Policy and Political Dimensions
 Claudio Gonzalez-Vega
May 2003

-Rural Development, Poverty, and Agricultural Land Use in El Salvador
Jorge Rodriguez-Meza, Douglas Southgate, and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega
October 2002

-Caracteristicas de los Clientes Rurales de la Financiera Calpia: Breve Analisis
Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, Jorge Rodriguez-Meza, and Rafael Pleitez-Chaves. January 2002

-Geographical Exclusion in Rural Areas of El Salvador:  It's Impact on Labor Market Outcomes
Ana Regina Vides de Andrade, Anabella Lardé de Palomo and Lissette Calderón Martinez, October 2001

-Dynamics of Rural Household Incomes in El Salvador: 1995-1997 Panel Results
Margarita Beneke de Sanfeliu and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, May 2000

-Household Integration to the Market as a Determinant of Rural Incomes in El Salvador
Anabella Lardé de Palomo, Claudio Gonzalez-Vega and Aida Argüello de Morera, May 2000

-Integración a los Mercados de los Hogares Rurales y Generación de Ingresos
Anabella Lardé de Palomo and Aida Argüello de Morera, March 2000

-Dinámica del Ingreso de las Familias Rurales en El Salvador: Estudio de Panel 1995-1997
Margarita Beneke de Sanfeliú, March 2000

-Participation en los Mercados Laborales de los Residentes en las Areas Rurales. Limitaciones y Desafíos
Carlos Briones and Katharine Andrade-Eekhoff, March 2000

-Financiera Calpiá (El Salvador). L'adaptation au Milieu Rural d'une Technologie Urbaine de Crédit
 [French version] [English version]
Sergio Navajas, December 1999

-Innovative Approaches to Rural Lending: Financiera Calpiá in El Salvador
[English version] [Spanish version]
Sergio Navajas and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, August 1999

-Notes on Methods Used in a Survey of Rural Clients of  Financiera Calpiá in El Salvador  
Mark Schreiner, Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, Margarita Beneke  de Sanfeliu and Mauricio Shi, August 1998

 

II.  Rural Finance Research Papers

-Lending Technologies, Competition, and Consolidation in the Market for Microfinance in Bolivia
Sergio Navajas, Jonathan Conning and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, Journal of International Economics. Volume 15, 747-770. 2003

-Lending Technologies, Competition, and Consolidation in the Market for Microfinance in Bolivia
Sergio Navajas, Jonathan Conning and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega,   March 2002

-Microfinance, Poverty Alleviation, and Improving Food Security:  Implications for India 
Richard L. Meyer, December 2001

-Estrategia Para la Profundizacion de los Mercados Financieros Rurales en los Paises Andinos y del Caribe
Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, 2001

-The Demand for Flexible Microfinance Products:  Lessons from Bangladesh
Richard L. Meyer, October 2001

-The Legal and Regulatory Environment for Micro and Small Enterprises in Russia:  Survey Evidence from Samara

Mehnaz S. Safavian, Douglas H. Graham and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, February 2000

 

-The State of Microfinance Activity and Regulation in Russia

Mehnaz S. Safavian, Douglas H. Graham, Claudio Gonzalez-Vega and Dennis Whelan, July 2000

 

-The Financial Experience and Attitudes Toward Regulation of Micro and Small Enterprises in Russia:  Preliminary Survey Results from Samara

Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, Douglas H. Graham, Valentina Hartarska, Denis Nadolnyak and Mehnaz Safavian, September 1999 

-Village Banks, Caisses Villageoises, and Credit Unions:  Lessons from Client-Owned Microfinance Organizations in West Africa
Korotoumou Outtara, Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, and Douglas H. Graham, April 1999

-Microcredit and the Poorest of the Poor:  Theory and Evidence from Bolivia
Sergio Navajas, Mark Schreiner, Richard L. Meyer,  Claudio Gonzalez-Vega and Jorge Rodríguez-Meza. World Development. Volume 28, No.2, 333-346.

-El Papel del Estado en la Promoción de Servicios Financieros Rurales
Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, November 1998

-Servicios Financieros Rurales: Experiencias del Pasado,   Enfoques del  Presente 
Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, November 1998

-Microfinance: Broader Achievements and New Challenges 
Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, October 1998

-Apex Organizations and the Growth of Microfinance in Bolivia
Sergio Navajas and Mark Schreiner, September 1998

-Rural Finance for the Private Farm Sector in Romania: Obstacles and Opportunities 
Mehnaz Safavian, Barbara Breitschopf, Geetha Nagajaran and Richard L. Meyer, August 1998

-Microfinance Apex Mechanisms: Review of the Evidence and Policy Recommendations
Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, August 1998

-Financial Apex Organizations: Experiences from Mexico
Mario Villalpando-Benitez and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, February 1998

-BANCOSOL: The Challenge of Growth for Microfinance Organization
[English version],   [Spanish version]
Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, Mark Schreiner, Richard L. Meyer, Jorge Rodríguez-Meza, and Sergio Navajas, August 1996

 

III.  Dissertations

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DEPOSIT FACILITIES AND CONSUMPTION SMOOTHING:A DYNAMIC STOCHASTIC MODEL OF PRECAUTIONARY WEALTHCHOICES FOR A CREDIT-CONSTRAINED RURAL HOUSEHOLD
Franz Marcelo Gomez-Soto, 2007

RISK COPING STRATEGIES AND RURAL HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY: QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM EL SALVADOR
Carlos Andrés Alpízar, 2007

THREE ESSAYS ON GEOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES OF TRADE OPENNESS
Mauricio Ramírez Grajeda, 2006

-Access to Credit by Hawkers: What is Missing? Theory and Evidence from India
Mukta Joshi, 2005

-Relationships Among Poverty, Financial Services, Human Capital, Risk Coping, and Natural Resources: Evidence from El Salvador and Bolivia
Jorge Maldonado, 2004

-The Instrument Problem under Inflation Targeting in an Open Economy: The Case of Costa Rica
Roger Madrigal-Lopez, 2004

-A Post-Schultzian View of Food Aid, Trade, and Developing Country Cereal Production: A Panel Data Analysis
Sarah K. Lowder, 2004

-Remittances as a Strategy to Cope with Systemic Risk: Panel Results from Rural Households in El Salvador
Rafael Pleitez Chavez, 2004

-Examining Client Exit in Microfinance: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Maria Pagura, 2003

-Three Essays on Finance for the Poor
Valentina Hartarska, 2002

-A Model of Schumpeterian Growth with Institutional Change and Financial Development: Theory and Evidence
Peter Kower, 2002

-Corruption and Microenterprises in Russia
Mehnaz Safavian, 2001

-Cost Frontier Analysis of Efficiency:  An Application to the Peruvian Municipal Banks
Janina Leon, 2001

-Precautionary Savings Behavior of Chinese Households in the 1990s
Heping Cao, 2001

-Group and Individual Microcredit Contracts:  A Dynamic Numerical Analysis
Jorge Rodriguez-Meza, 2000

-The Political Economy of Banking Regulations: The Case of Mexico 1940-1978
Mario Villapando-Benitez, 2000

-Determinants of Repayment Behavior in the Centenary Rural Development Bank in Uganda
Harriet Linda Nannyonga, 1999

-Policy Credibility and Exchange Rate Management: The Mexican 
Experience
Veronica DeAllende, 1999

-Transaction Costs and the Evolution of Market Completeness
Albert Jodhimani, 1999

-Credit for the Poor: Microlending Technologies and Contract Design in Bolivia
Sergio Navajas,1999

-Food Insecurity and the Evolution of Indigenous Risk-Sharing Institutions in the Sahel
Thi-Dieu-Phuong Genevieve Nguyen, 1998
 
-A Framework for the Analysis of the Performance and Sustainability of Subsidized Microfinance Organizations with Application to Bancosol of Bolivia and Grameen Bank of Bangladesh.
Mark Joseph Schreiner, 1997

-Ownership, Market Structure, and Efficiency in Korean Banks. A Cost Frontier Analysis
Jae-Youn Lee, 1996

-Determinants of Successful Group Loan Repayment: An Application to Burkina Faso
Julia Anne Paxton, 1996

-Assortive Matching of Borrowers and Lenders: Evidence from Rural Mexico
Susana Sanchez Schwarz, 1996

-Efficiency in Financial Intermediation: A Study of the Chilean Banking Industry
Ricardo Shirota, 1996

-Borrower Behavior and Loan Repayment in Credit Arrangements Involving Groups
Teodoro S. Untalan, 1996

 

IV.  Complete List of Working Papers and Publications

Some downloadable papers (in pdf format) can be found in the Publications List.  All papers listed can be obtained using the ordering information.

Publications List 1993-Present

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