Search Results - "Szafarz, Ariane"

Women in the boardroom: a bottom–up approach to the trickle-down effect by Périlleux, Anaïs, Szafarz, Ariane

“…This paper argues that role modeling can explain the impact of boardroom gender diversity on corporate performance. It theorizes that female workers are…”
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Controlling firms through the majority voting rule by Chapelle, Ariane, Szafarz, Ariane

“…Pyramids, cross-ownership, rings and other complex features inducing control tunnelling are frequent in the European and Asian industrial world. Based on the…”
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The regulation of prosocial lending: Are loan ceilings effective? by Cozarenco, Anastasia, Szafarz, Ariane

“…Regulatory loan ceilings are commonly found in the prosocial lending sector, yet they can have unintended perverse effects. By mitigating the risk of adverse…”
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Gender Biases in Bank Lending: Lessons from Microcredit in France by Cozarenco, Anastasia, Szafarz, Ariane

“…The evidence on gender discrimination in lending remains controversial. To capture gender biases in banks' loan allocations, we observe the impact on the…”
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Banking regulation and costless commitment contracts for time-inconsistent agents by Laureti, Carolina, Szafarz, Ariane

“…Behavioral economics modeling assumes that the contractible commitments valued by sophisticated time-inconsistent agents come at a cost. This paper challenges…”
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Women, immigrants, and microcredit in Europe: a Bayesian approach by Cozarenco, Anastasia, Szafarz, Ariane, Tsionas, Mike

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Vive la Différence: Social Banks and Reciprocity in the Credit Market by Cornée, Simon, Szafarz, Ariane

“…Social banks are financial intermediaries paying attention to non-economic (i.e., social, ethical, and environmental) criteria. To investigate the behavior of…”
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Virtual currency, tangible return: Portfolio diversification with bitcoin by Brière, Marie, Oosterlinck, Kim, Szafarz, Ariane

“…Bitcoin (BTC) is a major virtual currency. Using weekly data over the 2010–2013 period, we analyze a BTC investment from the standpoint of a US investor with a…”
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Microfinance and Gender: Is There a Glass Ceiling on Loan Size? by Agier, Isabelle, Szafarz, Ariane

“…Most of the customers of microfinance institutions are female. But do men and women benefit from the same credit conditions? We investigate this issue by…”
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Subsidies to microfinance institutions: how do they affect cost efficiency and mission drift? by Cozarenco, Anastasia, Hartarska, Valentina, Szafarz, Ariane

“…The costs and benefits of subsidized microfinance are still controversial. We utilize a cost-function estimation approach that accounts for the double bottom…”
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Cross-Ownership: A Device for Management Entrenchment? by Levy, Marc, Szafarz, Ariane

“…By artificially inflating capital and creating own shares, cross-ownership can be a key device for managerial entrenchment. This article proposes a…”
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Subjectivity in credit allocation to micro-entrepreneurs: evidence from Brazil by Agier, Isabelle, Szafarz, Ariane

“…This paper estimates the impact of loan officer subjectivity on microcredit granting by exploiting an exceptionally detailed database from a Brazilian…”
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Gold, bitcoin, and portfolio diversification: Lessons from the Ukrainian war by Oosterlinck, Kim, Reyns, Ariane, Szafarz, Ariane

“…Evidence from the 2022 Ukraine war suggests that, for diversification purposes, gold and bitcoin are complements rather than substitutes during crises…”
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Women Leaders and Social Performance: Evidence from Financial Cooperatives in Senegal by Périlleux, Anaïs, Szafarz, Ariane

“…•We investigate how women leaders influence the social performance of organizations.•Financial cooperatives combine banking activities with democratic…”
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Does Commercial Microfinance Belong to the Financial Sector? Lessons from the Stock Market by Brière, Marie, Szafarz, Ariane

“…This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full advantage of daily quoted prices. We revisit previous findings…”
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Do social enterprises walk the talk? Assessing microfinance performances with mission statements by Mersland, Roy, Nyarko, Samuel Anokye, Szafarz, Ariane

“…We study mission drift in social enterprises by examining whether these organizations stick to the actual mission enshrined in their mission statements. We use…”
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Microfinance and Gender: Issues, Challenges and The Road Ahead by Garikipati, Supriya, Johnson, Susan, Guérin, Isabelle, Szafarz, Ariane

“…This special collection examines the claim that microfinance promotes gender equality. The focus is on three areas of the debate: first, the question of how…”
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Female corporate owners and female CEOs by Charpin, Agnès, Szafarz, Ariane, Tojerow, Ilan

“…“Old boys’ club” ownership structures can hamper the empowerment of female talent. We use African data to show that the CEOs of firms with female shareholders…”
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Unsubsidized microfinance institutions by D’Espallier, Bert, Hudon, Marek, Szafarz, Ariane

“…This paper starts from the observation that 23% of the world’s microfinance institutions (MFIs) manage without subsidies. We examine how unsubsidized…”
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The price of deposit liquidity: banks versus microfinance institutions by Laureti, Carolina, Szafarz, Ariane

“…Using data from Bangladesh, this article finds that the liquidity premium - the difference between the interest paid on illiquid and liquid savings accounts -…”
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