Determinants of Pre-Pandemic Demand for the IMF’s Concessional Financing

Determinants of Pre-Pandemic Demand for the IMF’s Concessional Financing
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Volume/Issue: Volume 2021 Issue 015
Publication date: January 2021
ISBN: 9781513567778
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Exports and Imports , Concessional financing , dynamic factor model , probit regression , , WP , financing arrangement , IMF staff calculation , IMF financing event , factor estimation step

Summary

This study focuses on identifying the main factors that influenced country-specific and aggregate demand for IMF concessional financing between 1986 and 2018 and makes within-period and out-of-period forecasts. We find that the external debt level, inflation, and real effective exchange rate are the main economic variables influencing concessional borrowing for most eligible countries. Finally, our approach is able to provide quite accurate country-level and aggregate forecasts for historical financing events prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.