RESUME
Hubert Tchakoute is currently a Professor of Finance at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles, and Co-Director of the Center for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi). Previously, he served as a Full Professor of Corporate and Development Finance and Associate Dean for Research at KEDGE Business School (France).
RESEARCH FIELDS
Financial Inclusion | Social Finance | Entrepreneurship Finance | Financial Reporting Quality | Exogenous shocks & microfinance
KEYWORDS
Microfinance | Loan Contracts | Transparency | Gender Diversity | Developing Economies
most representative publications
- Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H. (2025). Do Lenders and Donors Value Transparency? Evidence From Financial Organisations in the Social Sector. International Journal of Finance & Economics. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.70054.
- Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H., Mufur, D. N., Simo, C., & Azangue Nguefack, P. (2025). Does board gender diversity influence voluntary IFRS adoption in social enterprises? Evidence from microfinance institutions. Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/JAEE-08-2024-0339.
- Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H. (2025). Does the legal enforcement environment constrain earnings management in social enterprises? Evidence from microfinance institutions. The British Accounting Review, 101684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2025.101684.
- Hessou, H. T., & Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H. (2025). The countercyclicality of microlending rates: Does the business model of microfinance institutions matter?. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 102, 102163.
- Kanga, D., Soumare, I., & Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H. (2024). Financial sector development and microcredit to small firms. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 96, 102063.
- Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H., Mufur, D. N., & Nya, M. T. (2024). Internal control quality and earnings management. Lessons from microfinance institutions. International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, 14(3), 347-369.
- Nya, M. T., Kouao, G. S., & Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H. (2023). Governance quality and international accounting standards adoption by microfinance institutions. Recherches en Sciences de Gestion, 159(6), 157-185.
- Fall, F. S., Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H., Vanhems, A., & Simar, L. (2023). Investigating the unobserved heterogeneity effect on outreach to women: lessons from microfinance institutions. Annals of Operations Research, 328(2), 1365-1386.
- Simo, C., Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H., & Nzongang, J. (2023). Does corporate social responsibility pay? Evidence from social ratings in microfinance institutions. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 187, 122180.
- Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H.., Simo, C., & Durrieu, F. (2022). Business cycle and cash holdings: Empirical evidence from microfinance institutions. Finance Research Letters, 50, 103228.
- Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H. (2023). Loan officer gender and loan repayment performance. Evidence from greenfield microfinance institutions in Cameroon. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 94(2), 519-548.
- Fall, F. S., Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H., Vanhems, A., & Simar, L. (2021). Gender effect on microfinance social efficiency: A robust nonparametric approach. European Journal of Operational Research, 295(2), 744-757.
- Hessou, H. T., Lensink, R., Soumaré, I., & Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H. (2021). Provisioning over the business cycle : Some insights from the microfinance industry. International Review of Financial Analysis, 77, 101825.
- Piot-Lepetit, I., & Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H. (2022). Ownership and performance of microfinance institutions in Latin America: A pseudo-panel malmquist index approach. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 73(5), 1167-1180.
- Soumaré, I., Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H., & Hessou, H. T. (2020). Are microfinance institutions resilient to economic slowdown? Evidence from their capital ratio adjustment over the business cycle. Economic Modelling, 92, 1-22.
- Tchakoute Tchuigoua, H., Soumaré, I., & Hessou, H. T. (2020). Lending and business cycle: Evidence from microfinance institutions, Journal of Business Research, 119, 1-12.
