A dramatic change has taken place in the manner in which the IMF conducts its annual surveillance of member state economies. These annual consultations (known as Article IV consultations) were originally viewed as private matters. Starting in 1997, the IMF released summary information about a...

Empirical studies of public opinion regarding globalization have to date addressed only economic integration. By way of comparison, we know much less about public opinion regarding cultural globalization. In addition, there has been little head-to-head testing of alternative explanations for...

I compare findings from a study of the content of OECD surveillance to that of the IMF. OECD reports are more likely to have a detailed analysis of the effectiveness of past surveillance, while IMF Article IV reports include information on why country authorities might disagree with the Fund....