Sovereign default is the switching state between successful and unsuccessful Fund catalysis. We find the IMF to be … resuming lending, even when the IMF intervenes. As long as default is avoided, IMF programs help a country signal its … Fund catalysis, than the size of IMF lending. …

We investigate whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the IMF, using … temporary UN Security Council membership and participation in IMF programs, even after accounting for economic and political … the number of conditions included in IMF programs. The size of the loan, however, is not affected by UNSC membership. …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in the process of re-inventing itself with bilateral and multilateral … surveillance emerging as a key function. The paper analyses how IMF surveillance announcements may be influenced by political power … that member countries exert at the IMF. First, we analyze the content of Article IV Public Information Notices (PIN), and …

Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for … finding a measure of political importance that is not plagued by endogeneity and obtaining data on IMF conditionality. We … available dataset on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the …

relation to the requirements of the IMF Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency based on discussions with the authorities …

This paper studies the factors that have influenced countries' participation in IMF drawing programs. IMF drawing …-track, it provides a closer link to the factors that have influenced the evolution of IMF credit outstanding. The analysis uses … determinants of countries' participation in IMF drawing programs. The importance of the global factor is not uniform during the …