Independent Actor or Agent? An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of U.S. Interests on International Monetary Fund Conditions
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...Our data on the number of IMF conditions are from Dreher (2004), extended in Dreher and Jensen (2007)....
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...32 For the list of countries and number of letters included in the sample, see Dreher and Jensen (2007)....
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...For in depth consideration of international political factors, see Thacker (1999), Stone (2002, 2004), Dreher and Jensen (2007), Oatley and Yackee (2004), Barro and Lee (2005). to agree.11 Thus, the IMF may be a less effective tool when the major shareholders disagree on a specific resolution…...
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...31 See IMF (2001), Gould (2003), Dreher (2004), Bulíř and Moon (2004), Ivanova et al. (2005), and Dreher and Jensen (2007)....
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...…of conditionality reported below, I include only observations that fall on test dates to avoid inflating the number of observations+ 37+ See Gould 2003; Dreher and Jensen 2007; and Copelovitch 2004+ 38+ Mussa and Savastano 1999+ The Scope of IMF Conditionality 599 D ow nl oa de d fr om h tt ps…...
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...…of the recent quantitative literature on IMF lending, see Steinwand and Stone 2008+ 11+ See Polak 1991; Gould 2003 and 2006; Copelovitch 2004; and Dreher and Jensen 2007+ 12+ The only systematic quantitative evidence of interference by countries other than the United States is from the…...
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...…to report data that low-capacity governments would not ordinarily generate without prodding from the IMF+ 50+ See Thacker 1999; Barro and Lee 2005; and Dreher and Jensen 2007+ A series of influential studies support the argument that the United States uses aid as an instrument of foreign policy+…...
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...…for the degree of democracy, presidential systems receive 7 percent fewer conditions than parliamentary democracies+ This effect is consistent with a 61+ Dreher and Jensen 2007+ 614 International Organization D ow nl oa de d fr om h tt ps :// w w w .c am br id ge .o rg /c or e....
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...…them to respond to failure by expanding their definitions of the problems to be solved+ 9+ Meltzer 2000+ 10+ See Thacker 1999; Barro and Lee 2005; Dreher and Jensen 2007; Eichengreen, Gupta, and Mody 2006; and Stone 2002 and 2004+ For a review of the recent quantitative literature on IMF…...
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...…studies have shown the measure is a suitable proxy for the intrusiveness of conditionality (Caraway, Rickard, and Anner 2012; Copelovitch 2010; Dreher and Jensen 2007; Dreher, Sturm, and Vreeland 2009; 2015), and it has been fruitfully employed in the IMF’s own studies (Bulir and Moon 2004;…...
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...Despite this, previous studies have shown the measure is a suitable proxy for the intrusiveness of conditionality (Caraway, Rickard, and Anner 2012; Copelovitch 2010; Dreher and Jensen 2007; Dreher, Sturm, and Vreeland 2009; 2015), and it has been fruitfully employed in the IMF’s own studies (Bulir and Moon 2004; Ivanova et al....
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...However, with regard to the UN Security Council, Kuziemko and Werker (2006) showed that rotating members receive more aid from the United States during their tenure than before, especially during years with key diplomatic events....
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