In theory, the IMF could influence economic growth via several channels, among them advice to policy makers, money disbursed under its programs, and its conditionality. This paper tries to disentangle those effects empirically. Using panel data for 98 countries over the period 1970-2000 it...

Die wissenschaftliche, wie auch die öffentliche Diskussion über die Kreditvergabe des IWF und der Weltbank, hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren spürbar intensiviert. Mit dem Ziel, einen Beitrag zu dieser Diskussion zu leisten, wird zunächst die Auflagenpolitik und das Vergabeverhalten der...

We investigate whether elected members of the United Nations Security Council receive favorable treatment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), analyzing panel data on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the period of 1992 to...

Using panel data for 68 countries over the period 1975-2002 this paper examines how IMF programs, disbursed loans, and compliance with conditionality affect the risk of currency crises and the outcome of such crises. Specifically, we investigate whether countries with previous IMF intervention...