2008 workshop participants and papers

Author(s)	Affiliation	Country	Title of paper
Pablo Cotler Eduardo Rodriquez-Ortega	Universidad Iberoamericana	Mexico	Profitability and loan size in Mexico’s microfinance: A case study
Adekunle Bamidele	University of Guelph	Canada	The impact of Microfinance on microenterprise development: An institutional approach
Hidayat Ullah Khan Takashi Kurosaki	Kahat University Hitotsubashi University	Pakistan (Japan)	Vulnerability of Microfinance to covariate shocks and strategic defaults: Evidence from Pakistan
Rients Galema Robert Lensink Laura Spierdijk	University of Gröningen	The Netherlands	Does microfinance improve the investment opportunity set of institutional investors? A mean-variance spanning test
Niels Hermes Robert Lensink Aljar Meesters	University of Gröningen	The Netherlands	Outreach and efficiency of microfinance institutions
Ludovic Urgeghe Marc Labie	CRMi	Belgium	The influence of microfinance investment funds on the governance of MFIs: a first approach
Begoña Gutierrez-Nieto Carlos Serrano-Cinca	University of Zaragoza	Spain	Factors influencing funder loyalty to microfinance institutions
Mateo Garcia Cabello	University of London	England	Policy reforms and institutional change in Central America: Microfinance regulation in El Salvador and Hounduras
Arvind Ashta Matthew Bush	Burgundy School of Business (BCG partners)	France (Japan)	Ethical issues of NGO principals in sustainability, outreach and impact of microfinance: Lessons in governance from the Banco Compartamos IPO
Anais Perilleux Marc Labie	CERMi	Belgium	Corporate governance in microfinance: Credit Unions
Marc de Sousa Shields	Enterprising Solutions Global Consulting	Mexico	Microfinance and the double bottom line in the post social enterprise era
Ben Soltane Bassem Trigui Borhen	University of Sfax	Tunisia	Determinants of individual microlending repayment performance in Tunisia: An emprirical analysis
Alvin N. Etang	University of Otago	New Zealand	Alternative finance for poor and low-income people
Ranula Bali Swain Maria Floro	Uppsala University	Sweden	Effect of microfinance on vulnerability, poverty and risk in low income households
Marek Hudon D. Traca	CERMi	Belgium	On the efficiency effects of subsidies in microfinance: An empirical inquiry
Fred Iga Luganda Nkote Nabeta Thomas Bwire and Bazageza Amos	Makerere University Business School	Uganda	Governance, outreach and financial sustainability of MFIs in Uganda
Nkote Nabeta Fred Iga Luganda	Makerere University Business School	Uganda	Competition, optimal structure and performance of MFIs: Evidence from Uganda
Robert Lensink Shubhashis Gangopadhyay	University of Gröningen	The Netherlands	Symmetric and asymmetric joint liability lending contracts in an adverse selection model
Susan Johnson Markku Malkamaki Max Nino-Sarazua	University of Bath DFSP	England Kenya	Management and governance of user-owned microfinance groups: evidence from Kenya
Valentina Hartarska Roy Mersland	University of Auburn (University of Agder)	USA (Norway)	What governance mechanisms promote efficiency in reaching poor clients? Evidence from leading MFIs
R. Øystein Strøm Roy Mersland	Østfold University College (University of Agder)	Norway	Microfinance mission drift - a global Study
Trond Randøy Roy Mersland R. Øystein Strøm	University of Agder (Østfold University College)	Norway	Is globalization bad for microfinance performance?
Silja Sanjeewa Roy Mersland	University of Agder	Norway	The effect of capital structure on microfinance performance
Roy Mersland	University of Agder	Norway	Microfinance governance: Some lessons from history

In the case of several co-authors it is the person with a name typed in bold letters, who was the one invited for the conference.

Published by <unni.henriksenSPAMFILTER@uia.no> 13/10/2008