We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version …

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 …

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 …

Using panel data for 188 countries over the period 1970-2002 this paper empirically analyzes the influence of the IMF … non-concessional IMF programs. Regarding voting coincidence with the US, World Bank (concessional and non …-concessional) loans have a significant impact, while the IMF has not. These results are robust to the inclusion of control variables and …

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 …

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. …

death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995-2010. The estimates indicate that … pharmaceutical innovation. The baseline estimate of the cost per life-year gained from pharmaceutical innovation in Greece is $17 …

macroeconomics. The current policy, however, provides a credible platform for sustainable growth. Greece has entered the process of …-se determining growth, supply-side reforms and institutional performance are; and for Greece both are better served within the EMU …

of the restructuring left money on the table from the perspective of Greece, created a large risk for European taxpayers …