Benjamin Roth

Harvard University - Business School (HBS)

Soldiers Field Road

Morgan 270C

Boston, MA 02163

United States

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Scholarly Papers (14)

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The Allocation of Socially Responsible Capital

Journal of Finance, forthcoming
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 30 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2024
Daniel Green and Benjamin Roth
Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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sustainable investing, impact investing, ESG, additionality, asset pricing, sustainability, climate change, carbon weighting

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What Do Impact Investors Do Differently?

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 24-028
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 30 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2024
Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Private Capital Research Institute, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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ESG, investing, private equity, socially responsible investment, venture capital

What Do Impact Investors Do Differently?

NBER Working Paper No. w31898
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 27 Nov 2023
Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Private Capital Research Institute, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Enterprises

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 20-078
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2021
Benjamin Roth
Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines

Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 18-101
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 19 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2020
Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan and Benjamin Roth
Northwestern University, University of Chicago and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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debt, moneylender, household finance

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

NBER Working Paper No. w24272
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 05 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2023
Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan and Benjamin Roth
Northwestern University, University of Chicago and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Making Marketplaces Safe: Dominant Individual Rationality and Applications to Market Design

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 27 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2020
Benjamin Roth and Ran I. Shorrer
Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Pennsylvania State University
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Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 23-006, Harvard Business Working Paper No. 23-006
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 21 Jul 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, Northwestern University, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Vancouver School of Economics and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Aug 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, Northwestern University, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Vancouver School of Economics and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Do Collusive Norms Maximize Profits? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

NBER Working Paper No. w30360
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 22 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Free Riding in Loan Approvals: Evidence from SME Lending in Peru

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 20-079
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Feb 2020
InterAmerican Development Bank, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), Harvard University - Business School (HBS), World BankWorld Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and InterAmerican Development Bank
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Information Spillovers, Banking, SME Lending, Financial Inclusion

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

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 9072
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 04 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2019
InterAmerican Development Bank, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), Harvard University - Business School (HBS), World BankWorld Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and InterAmerican Development Bank
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India’s Food Supply Chain during the Pandemic

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 21-070
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 13 Aug 2021
Matt Lowe, G.V. Nadhanael and Benjamin Roth
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Vancouver School of Economics, Government of India - Reserve Bank of India and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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COVID-19, Health Pandemics, Food, Supply Chain, India

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Keeping the Little Guy Down: A Debt Trap for Lending with Limited Pledgeability

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 05 Dec 2017
Ernest Liu and Benjamin Roth
Princeton University and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 20-088
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 21 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2020
Ernest Liu and Benjamin Roth
Princeton University and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Social Protection and Social Distancing During the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana

NBER Working Paper No. w30309
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 03 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2023
Northwestern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Ghana - Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana - Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Northwestern University
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Loan Officers Impede Graduation from Microfinance: Strategic Disclosure in a Large Microfinance Institution

NBER Working Paper No. w29427
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 08 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 29 May 2022
Natalia Rigol and Benjamin Roth
Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Social Protection and Social Distancing During The Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 01 Oct 2024
Yale UniversityNorthwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Vancouver School of Economics, University of Ghana, University of Ghana - Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Northwestern University
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cash transfers, COVID-19, social protection, mobile money

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

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12666
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 05 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2018
Yale UniversityNorthwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of Chicago and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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debt, household finance, moneylender