IMF Working Papers

The Macroeconomic Effects of ESAF-Supported Programs: Revisiting Some Methodological Issues

By Susan M Schadler, Louis Dicks-Mireaux, Mauro Mecagni

September 1, 1995

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Susan M Schadler, Louis Dicks-Mireaux, and Mauro Mecagni. The Macroeconomic Effects of ESAF-Supported Programs: Revisiting Some Methodological Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed December 22, 2024
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Summary

This paper examines whether ESAF-supported programs during 1986-91 had significant independent effects on growth, inflation and the external debt service ratio. Econometric estimates of the Generalized Evaluation Estimator (GEE) identify statistically significant beneficial effects on output growth and the debt service ratio but no effects on inflation. The robustness of these estimates is also examined. Diagnostic tests cast doubt on the applicability of the GEE framework to the ESAF-eligible countries, and the results obtained using it.

Subject: Debt service ratios, External debt, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Nominal effective exchange rate, Prices

Keywords: Caribbean, Debt service, Debt service ratios, Dummy variable, Estimation result, Fiscal stance, Fund support, Fund-supported program, Growth rate, Inflation, Least squares, Nominal effective exchange rate, Pacific Islands, Policy instrument, Policy reaction function, Policy variable, Regression estimate, Sample estimate, South Asia, Southeast Asia, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    42

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1995/092

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0921995

  • ISBN:

    9781451951486

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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