Conway Research:

Evaluating the Effects of the International Monetary Fund

Recent working papers:

• The International Financial Crisis and Eastern Europe: What is the IMF's Role?, 2010. paper for Carleton University conference, 27 August 2010.
• The International Monetary Fund and the International Financial Crisis, 2010. Paper for Tubingen Conference in honor of Egon Sohmen, 11 June 2010.
• Projecting Macroeconomic Outcomes: How has the IMF Done? (with Ruben Atoyan), under review at the Review of International Organizations.

 

Prior publications include:

• IMF Programs and Economic Crisis: An Empirical Study of Transition

 

• Endogenous IMF Conditionality: Theoretical and Empirical Implications -- presented at ASSA meetings, January 2004, and published as chapter 4 of Ranis, G., J. Vreeland and S. Kosack, eds: Globalization and the Nation State. Routledge, 2006.

 

• Projecting Macroeconomic Adjustment in IMF-Supported Programs (with Rouben Atoian, Marcelo Selowsky and Tsidi Tsikata), published as chapter 12 of Ranis, G., J. Vreeland and S. Kosack, eds: Globalization and the Nation State. Routledge, 2006.

 

• Evaluating the Impact of IMF Programs: A Comparison of Matching and Instrumental-Variable Estimators (with Ruben Atoyan), Review of International Organizations 1/2, 2006, pp. 99-124.
  • Base SAS program
  • SAS program for robustness checks
  • SAS program for changing the time horizon
  • SAS dataset

• International Monetary Fund in a Time of Crisis -- A Review Essay, Journal of Economic Literature 40/1, 2006, pp. 114-141.

 

• The Revolving Door: Duration and Recidivism in IMF Programs, Review of Economics and Statistics 89/2, 2007, pp.205-220.
  • pdf file
  • example of the SAS data program
  • example of the SAS data file