Cover -- THE IMF AND GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISES -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedicatiopn -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 IPGs and Financial Stability -- 1.2 IGOs and the IMF -- 1.3 Principals and Agents -- 1.4...

Recent research on the International Monetary Fund has focused on the adoption, implementation and impact of their lending programs and their political dimensions. This paper evaluates this literature and suggests promising areas of future work. The first area to be surveyed deals with the...