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rely solely on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) again, the Chiang Mai Initiative (CMI) was created in 2000. When the … doubled in size to $240 billion, while the IMF de-linked portion was increased to 30%. A surveillance unit, the Association …
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This paper studies fiscal policy in a model of sovereign debt and default. A time-inconsistency problem arises: since the price of past debt cannot be affected by current fiscal policy and governments cannot credibly commit to a certain path of tax rates, debtor countries choose suboptimally low...
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The paper examines the recent European crisis management programs of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to see how … in the IMF's policies and procedures to manage capital account crises more effectively. Despite these recent changes in … the way the IMF does its business, Asia appears to remain unengaged. The lesson Asia should draw from Europe is that it …
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The relation between IMF conditionality and country ownership of assistance programs is considered from a political …
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obtained are applied to assess the desirability of dollarization in a range of countries and the potential role of the IMF as …
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and asymptotic distributional results for these parameters. The methods are applied in an empirical analysis of IMF and …
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The question addressed in this paper is whether the IMF should be involved in Mexico-style crises and, if the answer is … positive, whether the existing IMF financing mechanisms are adequate – both in terms of the volume of funds that can be … countries, and the justification for IMF intervention lies in the ability of this institution, compared with international …
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In this paper we analyse the recent efforts of the international financial institutions to limit the moral hazard created by their assistance to crisis countries. We question the wisdom of the case-by-case approach taken in Pakistan, Ecuador, Romania and Ukraine. We show that because default and...
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International Monetary Fund (IMF); and 3) the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). I use a standard … indicate that OECD membership (but neither GATT/WTO nor IMF membership) has had a consistently large positive effect on trade. …
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We examine the implications for borrowing costs of including collective-action clauses in loan contracts. For a sample of some 2,000 international bonds, we compare the spreads on bonds subject to UK governing law, which typically include collective-action clauses, with spreads on bonds subject...
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