Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161838 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6399
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
While the consequences and effectiveness of IMF conditionality have long been the focus of research, the possible negative impact of IMF conditionality on countries’ willingness to ask for an IMF programme - often termed ‘IMF stigma’ - has recently received attention particularly from policy circles. In this paper we investigate how countries’ past experience with the IMF affects their likelihood of entering an IMF arrangement again. To also allow for such learning for countries which never had an IMF programme, we include neighbours’ past IMF conditionality. Our results indicate strong learning from own experience, but hardly any learning from neighbours, except for ASEAN countries. We conjecture that the stigma associated with IMF conditionality may exist for individual country cases, but that a more general ‘IMF stigma’ cannot be related to observing how the IMF treats peers.
Subjects: 
financial arrangements
reserves
IMF MONA
crisis resolution
JEL: 
F33
F53
F55
H87
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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