• The economic and social basis for state-restructuring in Nepal 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus; Ringdal, Charlotte (CMI Report R 2013:1, Research report, 2013-02-01)
      Nepal is in the process of forming a federal state, where the borders of the provinces is one essential, but disputed, issue. The report discusses underlying economic and social conditions that should be taken into account ...
    • Usufructuary Mortgages as a Source of Funds in Need: Some Theory and an Empirical Investigation 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus; Bell, Clive (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:6, Working paper, 2017-06-01)
      This paper develops a theoretical framework in which the borrower, who mortgages out, and the lender, who mortgages in, a parcel of land reach their decisions when credit and land markets function imperfectly. The results ...
    • Will more credit increase interest rates in rural Nepal? 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus (PDF is a revised version of Department of Economics. University of Bergen. WP-21-2000, Research report, 2000-01-01)
      We test two alternative models of interest rates determination in informal rural credit markets, using LSMS data from Nepal. We find strong support for a capacity-constrained collusive oligopoly model with full information ...