Jonathan H. Conning
Assistant Professor of Economics
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Education
Ph.D., Yale University, 1996
B.A., Swarthmore College, Economics (High Honors), 1986
Fields
Microeconomics, Development and Trade, Information Economics, Financial
Contracting.
Selected Work Experience
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Universite de Montreal, C.R.D.E. (Centre de recherche et diveloppement
en iconomique), Department of Economics, 1995 - 1996
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Research Consultant
Enterprise Finance in Kenya Project, The World Bank, RPED, 1993
Country Experience
Chile, Venezuela, Kenya.
Selected Publications and Working Papers
Jonathan Conning, Outreach, Sustainability and Leverage in Monitored
and Peer Monitored Lending, Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming.
_________, Prêt de groupe, aléa moral et création
d'une garantie sociale. Revue d'Économie du Développement
10(2), 65-101, 1997.
__________,"Joint-Liability, Peer Monitoring, and the Creation of Social
Collateral," Williams
College, July 1997.
_________, "Class Position and Economic Behavior: Selective Separability
in a two-factor household
model," presented at the meetings of the Middle Eastern Economic
Association, New Orleans,
January 4, 1997.
_________, "Pirates and Moneylenders: Product Market Competition and
the Depth of Credit Relationships" Williams College, October 1996.
_________, "Credit Rationing and Spillover in a Rural Credit Market
in Chile," IRIS working paper
#194, May 1996.
_________, "Enterprise Finance in Kenya," co-authored with Marcel Fafchamps,
Tyler Biggs and
Pradeep Srivastava, The Regional Program in Enterprise Development,
World Bank, June 1994.
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