Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/40321 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Tübinger Diskussionsbeiträge No. 310
Publisher: 
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Tübingen
Abstract: 
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 be necessary to avert an impending crisis. Absent of the IMF's signaling ability, our results state that repeated intervention is required to bail out a country, where by additional assistance may induce moral hazard on the debtor side. Contrarily, if the IMF exerts a strong signaling effect, one single intervention suffices to avoid liquidity crises.
Subjects: 
catalytic finance
debtor moral hazard
global games
JEL: 
C72
D82
F33
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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