The IMF in a World of Private Capital Markets

46 Pages Posted: 19 Apr 2005 Last revised: 6 Feb 2022

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Barry Eichengreen

University of California, Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Kenneth M. Kletzer

University of California at Santa Cruz; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research)

Ashoka Mody

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department

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Date Written: March 2005

Abstract

The IMF attempts to stabilize private capital flows to emerging markets by providing public monitoring and emergency finance. In analyzing its role we contrast cases where banks and bondholders do the lending. Banks have a natural advantage in monitoring and creditor coordination, while bonds have superior risk sharing characteristics. Consistent with this assumption, banks reduce spreads as they obtain more information through repeat transactions with borrowers. By comparison, repeat borrowing has little influence in bond markets, where publicly-available information dominates. But spreads on bonds are lower when they are issued in conjunction with IMF-supported programs, as if the existence of a program conveyed positive information to bondholders. The influence of IMF monitoring in bond markets is especially pronounced for countries vulnerable to liquidity crises.

Suggested Citation

Eichengreen, Barry and Kletzer, Kenneth M. and Mody, Ashoka, The IMF in a World of Private Capital Markets (March 2005). NBER Working Paper No. w11198, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=684724

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