Dr Greg Fischer

Assistant Professor in Economics and Development Associate

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7852 3545

Email:

g.fischer@lse.ac.uk

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Biography

Dr Greg Fischer's current research interests are:

Development Economics
Corporate Finance
Behavioural Economics
Experimental Economics

Greg's latest projects include:

Contract Structure, Risk Sharing & Investment Choice
Measuring the Willingness to Pay for Clean Water
Investment Choice and Inflation Uncertainty: Evidence from Dominican Microentrepreneurs

Latest

Development Discussion Papers

Eliciting and Utilizing Willingness-to-pay: Evidence from Field Trials in Northern Ghana

25 May 2018

James Berry, Greg Fischer and Raymond Guiteras

Using the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) mechanism, we estimate the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for and impact of clean water technology through a field experiment in Ghana. Although WTP is low relative to the cost, demand ... Read more...

STICERD-UCL Development and Growth Seminar

Building Evidence from Multiple Studies: The Response to Incentive Pay

30 November 2015

Greg Fischer (EOPP and LSE)

EOPP Work in Progress Seminars

TBA

25 June 2012

Greg Fischer (EOPP and LSE)

Development Discussion Papers

Contract Structure, Risk Sharing and Investment Choice

01 February 2011

Greg Fischer

Few microfinance-funded businesses grow beyond subsistence entrepreneurship. This paper considers one possible explanation: that the structure of existing microfinance contracts may discourage risky but high-expected ret... Read more...

Development Discussion Papers

Repayment Frequency in Microfinance Contracts with Present-Biased Borrowers

01 July 2010

Greg Fischer and Maitreesh Ghatak

This paper analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of high-frequency repayment, a feature in nearly all microfinance contracts that has been largely overlooked by theorists. The pervasive belief among practitioners that f... Read more...

EOPP Work in Progress Seminars

Culture and Incentives: Evidence from a Cross-Country Field Experiment

15 March 2010

Greg Fischer (EOPP and LSE)