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Besley and Coate (1995) analyse the impact of joint liability and social sanctions on repayment rates when repayment enforcement is imperfect. Motivated by the microfinance industry’s move towards markets, we conduct an equilibrium analysis of the Besley–Coate model. We find that individual loan contracts may be used in market equilibrium, even though group lending entails the higher repayment rate and the lower break-even interest rate. This is because group lending causes potentially large deadweight losses. The market equilibrium is possibly characterised by financial fragility, redlining or rationing. Cooperation between borrowers and social sanctions imposed on each other in the case of strategic default turn group lending into the equilibrium mode of finance and ameliorate the market failures. JEL Classification: G21

On the Viability of Group Lending when Microfinance Meets the Market