CEU Alumni Adam Szeidl, assistant professor of economics at University of California, Berkeley, visited the university last week to present his new field research on how social networks determine lending practices among Peru’s poor population.
Szeidl (MA Economics 2000) is among a group of economics scholars from Yale, Harvard, and Iowa State University who have launched micro-finance field experiment projects in two Lima shantytowns in order to measure the importance of social networks and trust when borrowing money.
