@techreport{Schafer2005Banking,
abstract = {Competition is claimed to be beneficial in development projects promoting micro and small enterprise finance although there are still some doubts whether these loans can be developed into a profitable business. Actually nothing is known about how many MSE banking units optimally should be created and supported in a certain region. Our research aims at shedding new light on this important issue in development finance. We employ a unique dataset from the Small Business Department of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for Kazakhstan, and investigate which strategy contributes more to the overall program?s success: a strategy of building up several competing banking units targeted at MSE lending or a strategy of establishing regional monopolies.},
address = {Berlin},
author = {Dorothea Sch\"{a}fer and Boriss Siliverstovs and Eva Terberger},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {G21; O16; G28; O18; 330; development finance; micro loans; competition; financial institution building},
language = {eng},
number = {479},
publisher = {Deutsches Institut f\"{u}r Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)},
title = {Banking competition, good or bad? The case of promoting micro and small enterprise finance in Kazakhstan},
type = {DIW-Diskussionspapiere},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18330},
year = {2005}
}
