provide a comprehensive database covering four elements of the GFSN (foreign exchange reserves, IMF financing, central bank …

provides a comprehensive database covering four elements of the GFSN (foreign exchange reserves, IMF financing, central bank …

Using panel data for 157 countries over the period 1999-2005 we empirically investigate the politics involved in IMF … find inflation forecasts are systematically biased downwards for countries with greater IMF loans outstanding relative to … GDP, indicating that the IMF engages in defensive forecasting. Countries with a fixed exchange rate regime also receive …

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 …

We analyse the effect of IMF and World Bank policies on the composite index of economic freedom by Gwartney et al … relationship between credits and programs of the IMF and economic freedom. …

This paper discusses, in a very general way, a system of IMF insurance against sovereign default that could be offered … could be priced is also discussed in an appendix. Private lender membership in the IMF is also discussed. This would provide … the IMF with some of the powers that central banks now have. …

Using panel data for 157 countries over the period 1999-2005 we empirically investigate the politics involved in IMF … find inflation forecasts are systematically biased downwards for countries with greater IMF loans outstanding relative to … GDP, indicating that the IMF engages in defensive forecasting. Countries with a fixed exchange rate regime also receive …

This paper provides an empirical evaluation of the Flexible Credit Line (FCL), the IMF's prime precautionary lending …

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 …-developing financial emergency, it is unlikely that the CMIM will be used even as a complement to the IMF. To serve as a stand-alone option …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played an important role in restructuring the Korean economy over the past … three years. Relying upon survey data collected in 1998 and 1999, this paper explores the role of the IMF in Korea, as … perceived by its citizens. In the eyes of the Korean people, the IMF helped their economy to recover from the crisis. However …