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Publisher:: International Monetary Fund
ISSN:: 1018-5941

The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. With nearly 300 released each year, working papers cover a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and national and international economic developments.

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Volume/Issue:: 2004/9
Series:: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):: Se-Jik Kim
Publisher:: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Published Date:: January 2004
DOI:: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451842623.001
ISBN:: 9781451842623
ISSN:: 1018-5941
Page:: 42

This paper proposes that international rescue financing should not be provided to a country where a crisis first occurs, but rather to any country that suffers a subsequent crisis. Such a timing-based lending facility can be Pareto-superior to both laissez-faire and existing international crisis lending facilities, when domestic governments have more information on their own economies than does the international lender of last resort. The new facility mitigates moral hazard owing to information asymmetry by not rescuing the first-hit country. At the same time, it limits crisis contagion by rescuing countries in subsequent crises. Even in the presence of common shocks, the timing-based facility can reduce global risks of crisis because it induces countries to undertake greater crisis-prevention efforts so as not to become the first country hit.

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Timing of International Bailouts

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