This paper develops a political-economy model of the budget process focusing on the common pool problem of the public budget. We show that the externality arising from the fact that public spending tends to be targeted at individual groups in society while the tax burden is widely dispersed...

We examine the effects of oil rents on corruption and state stability exploiting the exogenous within-country variation of a new measure of oil rents for a panel of 31 oil-exporting countries during the period 1992 to 2005. We find that an increase in oil rents significantly increases...

This paper presents Selected Decisions and Selected Documents' Ninth Issue of the IMF. This volume, the Ninth Issue of Selected Decisions of the IMF and Selected Documents, contains the decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and the Board of Governors of the IMF to...

This paper explains various selected decisions of the IMF's Executive Directors. The IMF has examined certain problems relating to the adjustment of its holdings of fluctuating currencies and to transactions and computations involving such currencies and has come to several conclusions. The IMF...

This paper presents Selected Decisions and Selected Documents' Eleventh Issue of the IMF. This volume, the Eleventh Issue of Selected Decisions of the IMF and Selected Documents, presents the decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and the Board of Governors of the IMF...

This paper proposes for adoption by the Executive Board as guidelines for Committees of the Executive Board when considering the amount of a subscription that should be paid in reserve assets. In applying the guidelines, a Committee shall pay due regard to present and prospective economic and...

This paper presents Selected Decisions and Selected Documents' Third Issue of the IMF. Dealings in paper money and coins are deemed to be 'other exchange transactions' within the meaning of Article IV, Section 3, whether or not the importation and exportation of such money and coins to and from...

This paper analyses several IMF's selected decisions of the Executive Board and selected documents. The Executive Board has reviewed the procedures relating to the IMF's surveillance over members' exchange rate policies. Whenever the Managing Director considers that important economic or...

This volume is the Seventh Issue of Selected Decisions of the IMF and Selected Documents. It contains the decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Directors and the Board of Governors of the IMF to which frequent reference is made in the current activities of the Fund. In...