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, Credit markets and Property Rights, Agrarian Organization.

Selected Work Experience

1. Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
   Universite de Montreal, C.R.D.E. (Centre de recherche et diveloppement en iconomique), Department of Economics, 1995 - 1996
2. Research Consultant
   Enterprise Finance in Kenya Project, The World Bank, RPED, 1993

Country Experience

Chile, Venezuela, Kenya.

Publications and Working Papers

• Jonathan Conning, "Pirate sales: Product Market Competition and the Value of Tied Credit Relationships," paper presented at the Western Economic Association meetings, San Francisco, July 1996.
• ___________, "Group Lending, Moral Hazard, and the Creation of Social Collateral," IRIS Working Paper No.195, May 1996.
• ___________, "Financial Intermediaries, Rationing and Spillover in a Rural Credit Market in Chile: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis," IRIS Working Paper No.194, May 1996.
• ___________, "Enterprise Credit in Kenya," (with Marcel Fafchamps, T. Biggs and P. Srivastava) Regional Program on Enterprise Development, The World Bank, June 1994.

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