An Econometric Analysis Of Countries Repayment Performance To The International Monetary Fund

Download or read book An Econometric Analysis of Countries' Repayment Performance to the International Monetary Fund written by Mrs.Lynn Aylward and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the literature on external debt repayment performance by sovereign debtors is extensive, repayment performance vis-à-vis the International Monetary Fund has not been dealt with separately. Given differences between the Fund and other providers of financial resources, this paper considers whether it is possible to distinguish through logit analysis between the countries that make timely repayments to the Fund and those that become overdue. The paper finds that the inclusion of Fund-specific financial variables and a small number of macroeconomic variables yields a highly significant econometric model of the probability of a country incurring Fund arrears.