Mathematical modelling of microcredit

UNS-JAD microfinance team

Francine & Marc Diener


Our investment for setting up exchanges of students and staff between European and Asian universities, with Bangladesh to begin with, led us, since 2009, to focus our research on mathematical modelisation of microcredit. Here some paper that inspired us and some results with our students who build up the UNS-JAD microfinance team. We also provide some other inspiring papers.


On incentives to reimburse and joint liability

Slides of a talk at the Indian Statistical Institute - Delhi celebrating the 125-th birth anniversary year of Pr. P. Ch. Mahalanobis

Here today, gone tomorrow: Can dynamic incentives make microfinance more flexible? (Gwendolyn Alexander Tedeschi)

Mathemaical models for Microlending (F. Diener, M. Diener, O. Khodr, P. Protter)

Mathematical models for individual and group lending in microfinance (O. Khodr, F. Diener)

Thesis O. Kodr

Group-lending: Sequential financing, lender monitoring and joint liability (Chowdury)

Valeur espérée d’un microcrédit dans un modèle de chaîne de Markov (F. Diener, M. Diener, N. Dhib)

Modélisation mathématique du flux espéré d’un micro-entrepreneur – Working Paper (Nahla Dib et al.)

On default rate: statistical study

Using repayment data to test across models of joint liability (Ch. Ahlin and R. M. Townsend)

Ahlin & Townsend data (cleaned) csv xls dta

Modélisation Mathématique du Microcrédit (thèse/thesis) (P. Mauk)

Credit et microcredit (un cours en MMDFA)

Equation de Yunus et taux aleatoire (exercice MMDFA sous Scilab)

Modele de Tedeschi sans periode d'exclusion (exercice MMDFA: modèles en chaînes de Markov)

Modele de Tedeschi avec periode d'exclusion (exercice MMDFA: modèles en chaîne de Markov)

Recherche des déterminants du defaut de remboursement dans une institution de microfinance : Cas de la faîtière des Caisses d'Epargne et de Crédit Agricole Mutuel du Bénin (A. Y. J. Akossou)

On repayment delays

On the implicit Interest Rate in the Yunus Equation (P. Mauk, M. Diener)

On the Implicit Interest Rate in the Yunus Equation (P. Mauk's slides Luminy)

Randomness of interest rates in microcredit (F. Diener, M. Diener, P. Mauk, J-M. B. Santos)

On scoring applications

Nguyễn Thị Thúy Vân's Master Thesis on Nahl Dhib's data from Tunisia DefenceSlides  Rcode Data OldData

More papers

Thesis Kanachana Thou: Exploratory Research on Investment Strategy of Microfinance Investment Fund

Peer Monitoring and Credit Markets (J. E. Stiglitz,1990)

Finance rurale au Bangladesh et aux Philippines (M. Godquin)