Does Regulatory Supervision Curtail Microfinance Profitability and Outreach?

被引:152
作者
Cull, Robert [1 ]
Demirguec-Kunt, Asli [1 ]
Morduch, Jonathan [2 ]
机构
[1] World Bank, Washington, DC 20433 USA
[2] NYU, New York, NY 10003 USA
关键词
microfinance; regulation; cross-country regression; global; INSTITUTIONS; PERFORMANCE;
D O I
10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.10.016
中图分类号
F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
Regulation allows microfinance institutions to take deposits and expand their banking functions, but complying with regulation can be costly. We examine implications for institutions' profitability and their outreach to small-scale borrowers and women, using a newly-constructed dataset on 245 leading institutions. Controlling for the non-random assignment of supervision via treatment effects and instrumental variables regressions, we find evidence consistent with the hypothesis that profit-oriented microfinance institutions respond to supervision by maintaining profit rates but curtailing outreach to women and customers that are costly to reach. Institutions with a weaker commercial focus instead tend to reduce profitability but maintain outreach. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:949 / 965
页数:17
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