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      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field

      By: Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth
      Identifying high-growth microentrepreneurs in low-income countries remains a challenge due to a scarcity of verifiable information. With a cash grant experiment in India we demonstrate that community knowledge can help target high-growth microentrepreneurs; while the...  View Details
      Keywords: Microentrepreneurs; Community Information; Field Experiment; Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries And Economies; Financing And Loans; Information; Mathematical Methods
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      Hussam, Reshmaan, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field." Working Paper, February 2021. (Conditionally Accepted, American Economic Review.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      India's Food Supply Chain During the Pandemic

      By: Matt Lowe, V G Nadhanael and Benjamin N. Roth
      We document the impact of India’s COVID-19 lockdown on the food supply chain. Food arrivals in wholesale markets dropped by 62% in the three weeks following the lockdown and wholesale prices rose by 8%. Six weeks after the lockdown began, volumes and prices had fully...  View Details
      Keywords: Covid-19; Health Pandemics; Food; Supply Chain; India
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      Lowe, Matt, V G Nadhanael, and Benjamin N. Roth. "India's Food Supply Chain During the Pandemic." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-070, December 2020.
      • September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
      • Technical Note

      Impact Investment, Catalytic Capital and Blended Finance

      By: Tarun Khanna, Ramana Nanda, Benjamin N. Roth and Brian Trelstad
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      Khanna, Tarun, Ramana Nanda, Benjamin N. Roth, and Brian Trelstad. "Impact Investment, Catalytic Capital and Blended Finance." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-078, September 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      The Allocation of Socially Responsible Capital

      By: Daniel Green and Benjamin N. Roth
      A rapidly increasing share of asset allocation decisions incorporate social values in addition to financial considerations. We argue that the most common strategies for socially motivated investing, which only consider the social value of the firms in an investors'...  View Details
      Keywords: Socially Responsible Investing; Assets; Resource Allocation; Social Issues; Decision Making; Strategy; Framework
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      Green, Daniel, and Benjamin N. Roth. "The Allocation of Socially Responsible Capital." Working Paper, November 2020.
      • February 2020 (Revised March 2020)
      • Case

      Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation

      By: Ramana Nanda, Benjamin N. Roth and Olivia Hull
      With long development timelines and high risk, new energy technologies were often left to languish in the “valley of death,” unable to raise enough funds to bring a product to market. In 2014, Sarah Kearney founded the nonprofit Prime Coalition to solve this problem....  View Details
      Keywords: Energy Conservation; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation And Invention; Technological Innovation; Mission And Purpose; Science-based Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States
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      Nanda, Ramana, Benjamin N. Roth, and Olivia Hull. "Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 820-007, February 2020. (Revised March 2020.)
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Entrepreneurship

      By: Benjamin N. Roth
      I present a model of financing social enterprises to delineate the role of impact investors relative to “pure” philanthropists. I characterize the optimal scale and structure of a social enterprise when financed by grants and when financed by investments. The analysis...  View Details
      Keywords: Impact Investing; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Mathematical Methods
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      Roth, Benjamin N. "Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-078, February 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Free Riding in Loan Approvals: Evidence From SME Lending in Peru

      By: Irani Arraiz, Miriam Bruhn, Benjamin N. Roth, Claudia Ruiz-Ortega and Rodolfo Stucchi
      We provide evidence that commercial lenders in Peru free ride off their peer’s screening efforts. Leveraging a discontinuity in the loan approval process of a large bank, we find competing lenders responded to additional loan approvals by issuing approvals of their...  View Details
      Keywords: Financing And Loans; Small Business; Competition; Information; Peru
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      Arraiz, Irani, Miriam Bruhn, Benjamin N. Roth, Claudia Ruiz-Ortega, and Rodolfo Stucchi. "Free Riding in Loan Approvals: Evidence From SME Lending in Peru." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-079, February 2020.
      • June 2019
      • Article

      Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines

      By: Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan and Benjamin Roth
      A debt trap occurs when someone takes on a high-interest rate loan and is barely able to pay back the interest, and thus perpetually finds themselves in debt (often by refinancing). Studying such practices is important for understanding financial decision-making of...  View Details
      Keywords: Borrowing And Debt; Household; Personal Finance; Decision Making; Behavior; India; Philippines
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      Karlan, Dean, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Benjamin Roth. "Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines." American Economic Review: Insights 1, no. 1 (June 2019): 27–42.
      • December 2018 (Revised January 2020)
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      Husk Power: Scaling the Venture

      By: Benjamin N. Roth, Joseph B. Lassiter III and Natalia Rigol
      In January 2018, Husk Power had just raised $20 million to scale operations for a second time. From 2007 through 2013, Husk built 80 biomass waste (primarily rice husk from rice mills) plants that provided electricity to 250,000 villagers and shop owners spread across...  View Details
      Keywords: Scaling; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Growth And Development; Energy Industry; India
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      Roth, Benjamin N., Joseph B. Lassiter III, and Natalia Rigol. "Husk Power: Scaling the Venture." Harvard Business School Case 819-069, December 2018. (Revised January 2020.)
      • October 2018 (Revised February 2018)
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      Masayoshi Son and the Vision Fund

      By: Tom Nicholas, Ramana Nanda and Benjamin N. Roth
      In October 2016, SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese conglomerate giant caused a significant shock to the worldwide market for venture capital and private equity by announcing the Vision Fund, the largest tech investment fund in the world at close to $100 billion. The...  View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Competitive Strategy
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      Nicholas, Tom, Ramana Nanda, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Masayoshi Son and the Vision Fund." Harvard Business School Case 819-041, October 2018. (Revised February 2018.)
      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      Paying for the Truth: The Efficacy of a Peer Prediction Mechanism in the Field

      By: Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth
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      Rigol, Natalia, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Paying for the Truth: The Efficacy of a Peer Prediction Mechanism in the Field." Working Paper, April 2016.
      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      Rank-Based Elicitation Schemes for Relative Likelihoods of Binary Events

      By: Vivek Bhattacharya and Benjamin N. Roth
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      Bhattacharya, Vivek, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Rank-Based Elicitation Schemes for Relative Likelihoods of Binary Events." Working Paper, March 2016.
      • Forthcoming
      • Article

      Making Marketplaces Safe: Dominant Individual Rationality and Applications to Market Design

      By: Benjamin N. Roth and Ran I. Shorrer
      Often market designers cannot force agents to join a marketplace rather than using pre-existing institutions. We propose a new desideratum for marketplace design that guarantees the safety of participation: Dominant Individual Rationality (DIR). A marketplace is DIR if...  View Details
      Keywords: Dominant Individual Rationality; Market Design; Safety
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      Roth, Benjamin N., and Ran I. Shorrer. "Making Marketplaces Safe: Dominant Individual Rationality and Applications to Market Design." Management Science (forthcoming).
      • 2020
      • Chapter

      Market Design Under Weak Institutions

      By: Benjamin N. Roth
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      Roth, Benjamin N. "Market Design Under Weak Institutions." In More Equal by Design: Economic Design Responses to Inequality, edited by Scott Duke Kominers and Alex Teytelboym. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
      • Forthcoming
      • Article

      Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps

      By: Ernest Liu and Benjamin N. Roth
      Microcredit and other forms of small-scale finance have failed to catalyze entrepreneurship in developing countries. In these credit markets, borrowers and lenders often bargain over not only the interest rate but also implicit restrictions on types of investment. We...  View Details
      Keywords: Microfinance; Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries And Economies; Financing And Loans
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      Liu, Ernest, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps." Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming).
      • Forthcoming
      • Article

      Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field

      By: Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth
      Identifying high-growth microentrepreneurs in low-income countries remains a challenge due to a scarcity of verifiable information. With a cash grant experiment in India we demonstrate that community knowledge can help target high-growth microentrepreneurs; while the...  View Details
      Keywords: Microentrepreneurs; Community Information; Field Experiment; Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries And Economies; Financing And Loans; Information; Mathematical Methods
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      Hussam, Reshmaan, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field." American Economic Review (forthcoming).
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