Economic Determinants of Fund Financial Arrangements

By Julio A. Santaella, Malcolm D. Knight

March 1, 1994

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Summary

This paper analyses empirically the economic factors that lead to approval of Fund financial arrangements. We account for both the economic variables that induce a country to seek an arrangement with the Fund ("demand-side" factors) and the macroeconomic policy commitments that the Fund considers when deciding whether to approve it ("supply-side" factors). Using a pooled sample of annual observations for 91 developing countries over 1973-1991, we obtain maximum likelihood estimates of bivariate and univariate probit equations to determine the probability of approval of a financial arrangement for a given country in a given year. A number of our chosen demand-side and supply-side variables are statistically significant determinants of the approval of a Fund arrangement, and the overall explanatory power of the equations is high.

Subject: External debt, International reserves, Probit models, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Balance of payments, Exchange rate, Fund arrangement, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

48
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Series:

Working Paper No. 1994/036
Stock No:

WPIEA0361994
ISBN:

9781451977967
ISSN:

1018-5941

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