The currency of confidence
Subtitle: how economic beliefs shape the IMF's relationship with its borrowers
By: Stephen C. Nelson
Series: Cornell studies in money; Cornell studies in money
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781501705120
Subjects: Foreign Loans; Financial crises; International Monetary Fund; Neoliberalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding the IMF and its borrowers; title: How shared economic beliefs shape loan size, conditionality, and enforcement decisions; title: Playing favorites : quantitative evidence linking shared economic beliefs to variation in IMF treatment; title: Argentina and the IMF in turbulent times, 1976-1984; title: From one crisis to the next : IMF-Argentine relations, 1985-2002; title: Staying alive : IMF lending programs and the political survival of economic policymakers; title: Implications, extensions, and speculations : the IMF and its borrowers, in and out of hard times.