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Helke Waelde
Current Position
Economist at the KfW-Entwicklungsbank (German Development Bank)
Development Policy Research
Contact
Email helke@waelde.com
Curriculum Vitae
Publications and work in progress
2011
Demasking the impact of microfinance
, GSME Discussion Paper 1115, www.economics.uni-mainz.de
The safe are rationed, the risky not - an extension of the Stiglitz-Weiss model
, GSME Discussion Paper 1108, www.economics.uni-mainz.de
To switch or not to switch - Can individual lending do better in microfinance than group lending?
, GSME
Discussion Paper 1106, www.economics.uni-mainz.de
Some preliminary but troubling evidence on group credits in microfinance programmes
, GSME Discussion Paper 1101, www.economics.uni-mainz.de
2010
Microfinance today: rethinking structures (mimeo)
2007
A reconsideration of the Stiglitz-Weiss model with a discrete number of borrower types
(2007, with Susanne Steger),
BGPE Discussion Paper 28, www.bgpe.de
Presentation in seminars and talks
01/2012 Brown Bag seminar, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt
08/2011 26th congress of the European Economic Association, Oslo, Norway
06/2011 Second European Research Conference on Microfinance, Groningen, The Netherlands
04/2011 Brown Bag seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
11/2010 Lunch seminar, University Regensburg
05/2009 Staff seminar, Georg-August-University Goettingen
04/2009 Brown Bag seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
04/2006 Lunch seminar, University Regensburg
Research interests
Microfinance, in particular the social impact of group membership on credit decisions of borrowers and the transition from group to individual lending
Empirical foundation of the advantages of individual lending in developing countries
Finance and growth in developing countries
Health and growth in developing countries
