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%T Banking competition, good or bad? The case of promoting micro and small enterprise finance in Kazakhstan %A Schaefer, Dorothea %A Siliverstovs, Boriss %A Terberger, Eva %J Applied Economics %N 6 %P 701-716 %V 42 %D 2010 %= 2011-04-01T03:48:00Z %~ http://www.peerproject.eu/ %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-240702 %X Competition is claimed to be beneficial in development projects promoting micro and small enterprise finance although there are still doubts as to whether these loans can be developed into a profitable business. Our research sheds new light on the question of how many MSE banking units should optimally be created and supported in a certain region. We employ a unique data set from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for Kazakhstan, and investigate which strategy contributes more to the overall success of the program: a strategy of setting up several competing banks or a strategy of establishing regional monopolies. %G en %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info