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Title Does the group leader matter? The impact of monitoring activities and social ties of group leaders on the repayment performance of groupbased lending Eritrea
Full text http://irs.ub.rug.nl/ppn/288213971
Date 2005
Author(s) Hermes, Niels
Abstract This paper analyzes whether the effects of monitoring and social ties of the group leader and other group members on repayment performance of groups differ, using data from an extensive questionnaire held in Eritrea among participants of 102 groups. We hypothesize that the monitoring activities and social ties of the group leader have a stronger positive impact on the repayment performance of groups. The results show that social ties of the group leader do have a positive effect on repayment performance of groups, whereas this is not true for social ties of other group members. We do not find evidence for the hypothesis that monitoring activities of the group leader have a stronger positive impact on group repayment performance. All variables measuring monitoring activities, either of the group leader or the other group members, are found to be statistically insignificant.
Language en_UK
Publisher Research School SOM
Relation http://som.rug.nl/
Type of publication Research paper
Format text/html; application/pdf
Rights Research School SOM
Repository Groningen - University of Groningen
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