The currency of confidence : how economic beliefs shape the IMF's relationship with its borrowers

Understanding the IMF and its borrowers -- The currency of confidence : how shared economic beliefs shape loan size, conditionality, and enforcement decisions -- Playing favorites : quantitative evidence linking shared economic beliefs to variation in IMF treatment -- Argentina and the IMF in turbulent times, 1976-1984 -- From one crisis to the next : IMF-Argentine relations, 1985-2002 -- Staying alive : IMF lending programs and the political survival of economic policymakers -- Implications, extensions, and speculations : the IMF and its borrowers, in and out of hard times