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Giorgia Barboni

University of Warwick
Giorgia.Barboni@wbs.ac.uk

Giorgia Barboni is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Warwick, Warwick Business School. Before joining the University of Warwick, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University. Her research interests are in development finance, behavioural economics, and household finance. Giorgia's work focuses on innovations in financial contracts and their impact on business growth and households' financial decisions. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa (Italy).

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क्या ग्रामीण महिलाओं द्वारा फोन का उपयोग किये जाने से उनके प्रति लैंगिक मानदंडों में उदारता आती है?

भारत में मोबाइल नेटवर्क की बेहतर कनेक्टिविटी के बावजूद, महिलाओं की प्रौद्योगिकी तक पहुंच और उनके द्वारा इसके उपयोग के संबंध में लैंगिक पूर्वाग्रह अभी तक बने हुए हैं। इस लेख में, एक अध्ययन से प्राप्त प...

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Does access liberalise gender norms around phone use for rural women?

Despite improved connectivity, deep-rooted gender norms continue to shape access to and use of mobile technologies by women in India. This note discusses preliminary findings from a study, which sugge...

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Using contract price to identify ‘right’ clients for flexible microfinance

While repayment flexibility in microfinance helps mitigate the impact of negative income shocks on MSMEs, it might increase default due to borrowers’ time-inconsistent or excessively risky behaviour...

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Covid-19 and debt moratorium conundrum: The case of microfinance

Given the extent of liquidity shock caused by Covid-19, the Reserve Bank of India enabled all lending institutions to provide their borrowers with a repayment moratorium on term loans until 31 Augus...

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