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Xavier Gine

Senior Economist

XAVIER GINE is a Senior Economist in the Finance and Private Sector Development Team of the Development Research Group. Since joining the Bank as a Young Economist in 2002, his research has focused on access tofinancial services and rural financial markets. In recent papers he investigated the macroeconomic effects of a credit liberalization; the relationship between formal and informal sources of credit in rural credit markets; indigenous interlinked credit contracts in the fishing industry and the impact of weather insurance. Prior to joining the Bank he was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. He holds an MA and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Contact information: Email: Xavier Gine, c/o research@worldbank.org


World Bank working papers and publications

1 .Revising commitments : field evidence on the adjustment of prior choices
2 .Does a picture paint a thousand words ? evidence from a microcredit marketing experiment
3 .How accurate are recall data ? evidence from coastal India
4 .After the microfinance crisis : assessing the role of government-led microcredit alternatives
5 .Commitments to save : a field experiment in rural Malawi
6 .Together we will : experimental evidence on female voting behavior in Pakistan
7 .Barriers to household risk management : evidence from India
8 .Eliciting probabilistic expectations with visual aids in developing countries : how sensitive are answers to variations in elicitation design ?
9 .Identification strategy : a field experiment on dynamic incentives in rural credit markets
10 .Microinsurance : a case study of the Indian rainfall index insurance market
11 .Put your money where your butt is : a commitment contract for smoking cessation
12 .Measuring subjective expectations in developing Countries : a critical review and new evidence
13 .Finding missing markets (and a disturbing epilogue) : evidence from an export crop adoption and marketing intervention in Kenya
14 .Insurance, credit, and technology adoption : field experimental evidence from Malawi
15 .Statistical analysis of rainfall insurance payouts in southern India
16 .Patterns of rainfall insurance participation in rural India
17 .Group versus individual liability : a field experiment in the Philippines
18 .Do reorganization costs matter for efficiency ? Evidence from a bankruptcy reform in Colombia
19 .Microfinance games
20 .Cultivate or rent out ? Land security in rural Thailand
21 .Credit constraints as a barrier to technology adoption by the poor : lessons from South Indian small-scale fishery
22 .Access to capital in rural Thailand : an estimated model of formal versus informal credit
23 .Evaluation of financial liberalization : a general equilibrium model with constrained occupation choice




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