IMF’s Precautionary Lending Instruments: Have They Worked?

IMF’s Precautionary Lending Instruments: Have They Worked?
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Volume/Issue: Volume 2022 Issue 256
Publication date: December 2022
ISBN: 9798400229626
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Finance , Economics- Macroeconomics , Money and Monetary Policy , Economics / General , IMF , Precautionary instruments , Event studies , Synthetic control , , PLL drawdown , precautionary lending instrument , fcl arrangement , precautionary instrument , PLL adopter , COVID-19 , Emerging and frontier financial markets , Oil prices , Credit default swap , Sovereign bonds , Global

Summary

The paper documents the benefits provided by IMF’s precautionary instruments (FCL and PLL) to countries in accessing international financial markets. It builds on multiple methods to show that the announcement of new FCL or PLL generally leads to a significant decline in sovereign spreads. Next, it evaluates the role of the FCL and PLL in mitigating external financial pressures, focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic as a case study. Economies which had a PLL or FCL arrangement in place during the pandemic experienced a lower increase in spreads relative to other emerging markets, even after controlling for country-specific effects and other covariates, suggesting that these arrangements help cushion external shocks. Finally, the study asks whether FCL/PLL drawdowns have an impact on financial perceptions; the analysis finds—albeit on the basis of a very small sample— no evidence of downside effects from countries drawing down on these arrangements .