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In: The european journal of development research, 2021, p. 27

In: Philosophy of Management, 2021, no. 20, p. 431–439

The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 might constitute another structural change in IMF lending after the Latin American debt crisis and the end of the Cold War. Using a panel dataset of 120 countries with IMF programmes from 1993 to 2016, I find that with the crisis, the importance of financial corporations in IMF lending decisions has risen as major IMF shareholders seek to...

Au Yong Lyn, Audrey

Bounie, David; Dubus, Antoine; Waelbroeck, Patrick

Boogen, Nina; Filippini, Massimo; Martinez Cruz, Adan L.

Rao, Susie Xi; Rausch, Johannes; Egger, Peter H.; Zhang, Ce; Rao, Susie Xi

Riccaboni, Massimo; Verginer, Luca

Private consumption, i.e., spending of households, is a key economic variable. While data on private consumption are widely available on a national, aggregate level, disaggregated data on household spending are scarce, particularly in the form of a panel. To fill this gap, we make use of Swiss tax data from the Canton of Bern from 2002 until 2016 to retrieve consumption estimates on...