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Shawn Cole

  • Associate Professor of Business Administration
  • Harvard University

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Shawn Cole is an Associate Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. His research examines corporate and household finance in emerging markets, with a focus on banking, microfinance, insurance, and the relationship between financial development and economic growth. He has worked in India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and South Africa.

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Index Insurance to Manage Weather Risk: A Long-Run Experiment

Shawn Cole, Jeremy Tobacman, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Maulik Jagnani, Lisa Nestor 2 Apr 2013
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Improving Access to Finance for Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries

Shawn Cole, Leora Klapper 31 Mar 2011
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Tamil pickers plucking tea leaves on plantation. Photo credits: Hadynyah / E+ via Getty Images.

Marketing weather-indexed agricultural insurance to smallholder farmers in rural Gujarat, India (Policy Brief)

Shawn Cole, Maulik Jagnani, Lisa Nestor, Jeremy Tobacman
Policy brief
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Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers (Working Paper)

Shawn Cole, Leora Klapper
Working paper
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Improving Financial Access for Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries (Policy Brief)

Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz, Leora Klapper
Policy brief

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