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The development and implementation of IMF and World Bank conditionality
Dreher, Axel - 2002
The paper presents a detailed description of IMF and World Bank conditionality and tries to explain changes in this … World Bank conditionality as well as interruptions of IMF programs in the recipient countries. Compliance with World Bank … conditionality is lower in election years and pre-election years. Breakdowns of IMF programs are less likely in election years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295488
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The impact of international organizations on the environment: An empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Ramada-Sarasola, Magdalena - 2006
extent the presence of IMF, World Bank, regional Multilateral Development Banks, WTO and Global Environmental Facilities has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285927
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The golden hello and political transitions
Aidt, Toke S.; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012
We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288466
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The golden hello and political transitions
Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012
We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319723
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Financial Liberalization and Business Cycles: The Experience of Countries in the Baltics and Central Eastern Europe
Vinhas de Souza, Lúcio - 2004
This paper extends the work of Kaminsky and Schmukler (2003) to the Baltic and Central Eastern European future Member States of the European Union, to test if the same short-run increase in cyclical volatility arising from financial integration is observed in this specific sample of ?emerging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295650
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The effect of IMF lending on the probability of sovereign debt crises
Jorra, Markus - 2010
This paper explores empirically how the adoption of IMF programs affects sovereign risk over the medium term. We find … that IMF programs significantly increase the probability of subsequent sovereign defaults by approximately 1.5 to 2 … sovereign defaults and program participation simultaneously. Furthermore, IMF programs turn out to be especially detrimental to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286366
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Transparency and emerging market bond spreads
Moretti, Laura - 2011
by whether or not the countries publish the IMF Article IV Staff report and the Reports on the Observance of Standards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308569
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Old Europe's social model: A reason of low growth? The case of Germany
Siebert, Horst - 2006
This paper discusses the goal conflict between social protection and economic growth as well as employment. Taking the German economy as an example for the large continental economies of Old Europe, it analyzes twenty mechanisms that affect the fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272945
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EU Accession Countries’ Specialisation Patterns in Foreign Trade and Domestic Production - What can we infer for catch-up prospects?
Stephan, Johannes - 2003
This paper supplements prior analysis on 'patterns and prospects' (Stephan, 2003) in which prospects for the speed of future productivity growth were assessed by looking at the specialisation patterns in domestic production. This analysis adds the foreign trade sphere to the results generated in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316350
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Identification of new Keynesian Phillips Curves from a global perspective.
Dées, Stéphane; Pesaran, Hashem; Smith, Vanessa; … - 2008
New Keynesian Phillips Curves (NKPC) have been exten-sively used in the analysis of monetary policy, but yet there are a number of issues of concern about how they are estimated and then related to the underlying macro-economic theory. The first is whether such equations are identified. To check...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604938