Bedfellows, Hostages, or Perfect Strangers? : Global Capital Markets and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Crisis Lending /

During the 1990s, the concept of "catalytic official finance" (COF) gained prominence in policy debates. The concept revolves around the idea that the propensity of investors to lend to a country increases when the IMF provides its "seal of approval"-backed up by only limited off...

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Autor Principal: Giannini, Curzio
Outros autores: Cottarelli, Carlo
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/193
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF