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- Title
Microcredit: equilibrium effects.
- Authors
Bagga, Aanchal; Kinnan, Cynthia
- Abstract
Changes to access to credit can potentially cause changes to the returns to various factors—general equilibrium (GE) effects. This paper considers changes in wages, prices of goods and services, interest rates, and in the returns to forming or maintaining social ties. Such GE effects can lead to positive and/or negative indirect effects on economic agents, including those who are not directly affected by a given credit policy. Thus such effects matter for the average level and distribution of impacts resulting from credit access. In addition, GE effects have implications for research design, in that those who are indirectly affected via GE channels are generally not a valid counterfactual for those who are directly affected.
- Subjects
CREDIT control; MICROFINANCE; EQUILIBRIUM; INTEREST rates; PRICES; COUNTERFACTUALS (Logic)
- Publication
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2024, Vol 40, Issue 1, p54
- ISSN
0266-903X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/oxrep/grad048