• Increasing trust in the bank to enhance savings: Experimental evidence from India 

      Mehrotra, Rahul; Somville, Vincent; vandewalle, Lore (CMI Working Paper WP 2016:01, Working paper, 2016-01-01)
      Recent evidence highlights the importance of trust in explaining bank account savings. According to economic theory, repeated interactions can play a crucial role in shaping trust. We designed the first field experiment ...
    • Property Taxation in Developing Countries 

      Ali, Merima; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Katera, Lucas (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 1, Report, 2017-03-01)
      Property tax (PT) raises on average revenues of less than 1% of GDP in developing countries. In many African countries it contributes far less than 0.5%. Following such low contribution, there is a growing eagerness among ...
    • Saving by Default: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India 

      Somville, Vincent; Vandewalle, Lore (IHEID Working Paper 01-2015, Research report, 2015-03-19)
      A growing share of the world population is getting access to a formal bank account. This allows a move from cash to account based payments. Grounding our hypothesis in behavioral economics, we conjecture that being paid ...