Financial Markets and Financial Products
Financial Market Responses to a Natural Disaster: Evidence from Local Credit Networks and the Indian Ocean Tsunami (with Stefan Klonner), Journal of Development Economics (2023) 160 [link to journal website]
Microfinance loan officers before and during Covid-19: Evidence from India (with Florian Englmaier, Hoa Ho, & Lisa Spantig), World Development, (2022) 152, 105812 [link to journal website] [fai blog post][working paper]
Pay, peek, punish? Repayment, information acquisition and punishment in a microcredit lab-in-the-field experiment, Journal of Development Economics, (2015) 117: 119 - 133 [link to journal website] [Web Appendix]
Balancing the Burden: Shared Responsibility in Intergenerational Financial Support in Rural Ghana (with Frederick Amon-Armah, Hanna Fromell and Robert Lensink), SSRN Working Paper (2025) [working paper]
Gendered Access to Finance: The Role of Team Composition, Idea Quality, and Implementation Constraints in Business Evaluations (with Vojtech Bartos (University of Milan), Silvia Castro (LMU Munich) and Timm Opitz (MPI Munich)), SSRN Working Paper (2026) [working paper]
Do flexible repayment schedules improve the impact of microcredit? Evidence from a randomized evaluation in rural India, Working Paper >>PDF
Incentives and Norms in Microfinance
Employee Performance and Mental Well-Being: The Mitigating Effects of Transformational Leadership during Crisis (with Florian Englmaier, Hoa Ho, & Lisa Spantig), Management Science (2026) 72(4) [link to journal website]
Flexible Contract, Flexible Moral? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline (with Anett John and Lisa Spantig), International Economic Revies (2026) [link to journal website]
Unfair Incentives: A Behavioral Note on Sharecropping (with Niels Kemper and Heiner Schumacher, Economics of Transition, (2018) 26(2) 303-331 [link to journal website][Web Appendix]
Gender-related Constraints to Labor Productivity and Menstrual Health
Improved Menstrual Health and the Workplace: An RCT withFemale Bangladeshi Garment Workers (with Andreas Menzel and Martina Miotto) Journal of Development Economics (2024), 166 [link to journal website][working paper]
Cultural Taboos and Misinformation about Menstrual Health Management in Rural Bangladesh (with Silvia Castro), World Development (2025), 188 [link to journal website]
Menstrual Health Innovations in High-Severity Settings: The Role of Social Norms and Men for Adoption and Well-being (with Silvia Castro, Carolin Formella, and Schanzah Khalid), SSRN Working Paper (2026) [working paper]
Identifying and teaching high-growth entrepreneurship: Experimental evidence from entrepreneurship academies for university students in Uganda (with Vojtech Bartos , Michael Kaiser, Timm Opitz and Brendan Shanks)
The effects of information sharing on moral hazard in credit markets - Evidence from a randomized evaluation in the Philippines (with Matthias Fahn and Lisa Spantig)
Group dynamics in microfinance - Leadership qualitites and group performance in rural Bangladesh (with Silvia Castro, Simeon Schudy and Abu Shonchoy)
How do agricultural investment decisions change with the provision of rainfall microinsurance and savings? Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Senegal (with Vianney Dequiedt)
Willingness to pay for microinsurance and flexibility: Evidence from an agricultural investment lab-in-the-field experiment in Senegal (with Vianney Dequiedt), Working Paper
Risk taking and crowding out in formal and informal insurance: Evidence from field lab experiments with aquaculture insurance in rural Vietnam
Contract design and demand for credit in microfinance - Evidence from lab-in-the-field and field experiments in rural Bangladesh (with Abu Shonchoy)