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    • Ahlin, Christian; Pang, Jiaren (Vanderbilt University, 2007)
      While financial development and corruption control have been studied extensively, their interaction has not. We develop a simple model in which low corruption and financial development both facilitate the undertaking of ...
    • Ahlin, Christian; Jiang, Neville (Vanderbilt University, 2005)
      We examine the long-run effects of micro-credit on development in an occupational choice model very similar to Banerjee and Newman (JPE, 1993). Micro-credit is modeled as a pure improvement in the credit market that opens ...
    • Ahlin, Christian; Ahlin, Peter (Vanderbilt University, 2006)
      We add congestion/snobbery to the Hotelling model of spatial competition. For any firm locations on opposite sides of the midpoint, a pure strategy price equilibrium exists and is unique if congestion costs are strong ...
    • Ahlin, Christian; Shintani, Mototsugu (Vanderbilt University, 2006)
      We revisit a foundational theoretical paper in the menu cost literature, Sheshinski and Weiss (1983), one of the few to treat stochastic inflation with persistent deviations from trend. In contrast to the original finding, ...
    • Ahlin, Christian; Townsend, Robert (Vanderbilt University, 2003)
      Various theories make predictions about the relative advantages of individual loans versus joint liability loans. If we imagine that lenders facing moral hazard make relative performance comparisons in determining stringency ...
    • Ahlin, Christian; Townsend, Robert (Vanderbilt University, 2002)
      Spurred by its successful delivery of credit to poor borrowers in diverse areas of the developing world, joint liability lending has caught the imagination of development theorists and practitioners. Various theories have ...