Is Transparency Good for You, and Can the IMF Help? /

This paper finds that reforms introduced by the IMF to promote transparency have created more informed markets and reduced borrowing costs for those emerging market countries that volunteered for them. Using a quarterly panel estimation with fixed country effects, we find that sovereign spreads fall...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shin, Yongseok
Other Authors: Glennerster, Rachel
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/132
Online Access:Full text available on IMF