Research#

Published

Conning, J. and Jonathan Morduch (2011), “Microfinance and Social Investment,” Annual Review of Financial Economics, vol. 3.

Conning, J. and James A. Robinson (2009), “Enclaves and Development: an empirical assessment,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 44, 359-385.

Conning, J. and James A. Robinson (2007), “Property Rights and the Political Organization of Agriculture,” Journal of Development Economics, 82, 416-447.

Conning, J. and Chris Udry (2007), “Rural Financial Markets,” in Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 3, Agricultural Development, Evenson, R.E., et al, (eds).

Conning, J. and Michael Kevane (2007), “Freedom, Servitude and Voluntary Contract,” in Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl eds, Buying Freedom: the Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption, Princeton University Press, 2007

Conning, J. and Michael Kevane (2004) “Why isn’t there more financial intermediation in developing countries?,” in Dercon, S. (ed) Insurance against Poverty, Oxford University Press.

Conning, J., Sergio Navajas and Claudio Gonzales-Vega, “Lending Technologies, Competition, and Consolidation in the Market for Microfinance in Bolivia,” Journal of International Development, 15(6), 747–770, 2003.

Conning, J. and Michael Kevane (2002), “Community Based Targeting Mechanisms for Social Safety Nets: a critical review,” World Development, 30(3), March 2002.

Conning, J. (1999) “Outreach, Sustainability and Leverage in Monitored and Peer-Monitored Lending.” Journal of Development Economics, 60(1).

Conning, J. (1997) “Prêt de groupe, aléa moral et création d’une garantie sociale,” Revue d’Économie du Développement 10(2), 65-101.

Basu, Karna and Jonathan Conning (2021) Threats to Commitment: Contracting with Present-Biased Consumers under Renegotiation Concerns manuscript, under submission.

Selected Working Papers

Baker, Matthew and Jonathan Conning (2021) “The Transformation of Customary Land Rights in Africa: An Analytical Framing.”

Conning, J. (2019) “Latifundia Economics.”

Conning, J. (2017), “On the Causes of Slavery or Serfdom and the Roads to Agrarian Capitalism: Domar’s Hypothesis Revisited.”

Conning, J. (2005), “Monitoring by Delegates or by Peers? Joint-Liability Loans under Moral Hazard.”

Selected Policy Papers

Conning, J and Partha Deb (2007) “Impact Evaluation for Land Property Rights Reforms” (with Partha Deb), Doing Impact Evaluation 8, World Bank Development Impact Evaluation Initiative.

Conning, J. and Michael Kevane (2001) “Mecanismos de Selección para las Redes de Seguridad Social Basados en la Comunidad Mecanismos de Selección para las Redes de Seguridad Social Basados en la Comunidad,” (with Michael Kevane), Serie de Documentos de Discusion sobre la Proteccion Social, No. 102, World Bank Social Protection Unit, 2001.

“Enterprise Finance in Kenya” (with Marcel Fafchamps, Tyler Biggs, and Pradeep Srivastava). The World Bank, Regional Program in Enterprise Development, 1994.

“Socioeconomic Report on Venezuela 1992.” (with William R. Cline). Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C.