Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Berger, Helge; Haan, Jakob de - In: Economics and Politics 17 (2005) 07, pp. 177-213
This paper analyses which economic and political factors affect the chance that a country receives IMF credit or signs an agreement with the Fund. We use a panel model for 118 countries over the period 1971-2000. Our results, based on extreme bounds analysis, suggest that it is mostly economic...