This study explores a basic idea in political economy: Trading money for political influence. Our focus is at the level of international institutions, where governments may exploit their influence in one organization to gain leverage over another. In particular, we consider the lending...

We compiled data on all United Nations General Assembly resolutions on which voting took place between January 1990 and June 2013 and find a preoccupation with one country: in 65 percent of instances in which a country is criticized in a resolution, the country is Israel, with no other country...

This paper contributes to the debate on the efficacy of IMF's catalytic finance in preventing financial crises. Extending Morris and Shin (2006), we consider that the IMF's intervention policy usually exerts a signaling effect on private creditors and that several interventions in sequence may...

Main description: Seit geraumer Zeit gibt es eine lebhafte Diskussion über die Wirksamkeit von Strukturanpassungs- und Stabilisierungsprogrammen des Internationalen Währungsfonds in Entwicklungsländern. Die dabei vertretene Position des "Washington Consensus" setzt auf Stabilisierung,...