IMF lending: how is it affected by economic, political and institutional factors?

By G. Bird, D. Rowlands. 2001

154 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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In Development

1. Axel Dreher
2. R. Stone
3. Christopher Kilby
4. M. Steinwand
5. G. Bird
6. Nathan M. Jensen
7. D. Rowlands
8. J. Vreeland

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Axel Dreher
2. R. Stone
3. G. Bird
4. M. Steinwand
5. Nathan M. Jensen
6. D. Rowlands
7. F. Tarp
8. Chengang Wang

In Finance

1. Axel Dreher
2. R. Stone
3. M. Steinwand
4. G. Bird
5. D. Rowlands
6. F. Tarp
7. Chengang Wang
8. Nathan M. Jensen

Citations in the corpus

• Do IMF and World Bank Influence Voting in the Un General Assembly? (2006, unknown): “See also Bird and Rowlands (2001).”
• World Bank Independence: A Model and Statistical Analysis of US Influence (2006, unknown): “influence in the IMF, also see Barro and Lee (2001), Bird and Rowlands (2001), Oatley (2003) and Thacker (1999).”
• IMF Programs: Who is Chosen and What are the Effects? (2005, unknown): “16 Other studies, such as Edwards and Santaella (1993) and Bird and Rowlands (2001), include measures of political and institutional structure.”
• WHICH VARIABLES EXPLAIN DECISIONS ON IMF CREDIT? AN EXTREME BOUNDS ANALYSIS (2005, unknown): “Various studies [including Barro and Lee (2002) and Dreher and Vaubel (2004)] find this variable to be significant, but Bird and Rowlands (2001) find that it is not.”
• The economic and political determinants of IMF and world bank lending in the Middle East and North Africa (2006, background): “…literature on the influence of the political preferences of the IMF and World Bank's principal shareholders on lending decisions (Barro & Lee, 2001; Bird & Rowlands , 2001; Fleck & Kilby, 2001; Killick, 1995; Rowlands, 1995; Thacker, 1999) to the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper…”
• The International Monetary Fund: A review of the recent evidence (2008, background): “Independent variables Atoian & Conway 2006 Barro & Lee 2005 Bird & Rowlands 2001 Bird et al. 2004”
• Independent Actor or Agent? An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Us Interests on IMF Conditions (2005, background): “5 Bird and Rowlands (2001), however, do not find such relationship.”
• Do IMF Programmes Have a Catalytic Effect on Other International Capital Flows? (2002, background): “There is evidence that estimating equations that contain proxies for political and institutional factors possess superior explanatory power over those that include only economic variables, suggesting that such factors exert a signi cant effect (Thacker, 1999; Bird & Rowlands, 2001b).”
• On US politics and IMF lending (2006, background): “Moreover, the Meltzer Commission (2000) implicitly accepts the view that G7 governments, particularly the US, use the IMF as a vehicle to achieve own political ends (see also Bird and Rowlands, 2001).”