Imf extending a long-term loan


For each of the given situations describe which of the policy issues is associated with stance the institution has taken.

1) The IMF extends a long-term loan to a nations government to help it maintain publicly supported production of goods and services that the government otherwise would have turned over to private companies.

  • Moral hazard
  • Adverse selection
  • Making loans that would be otherwise funded in the private market
  • High level of corruption makes loans have little chance of success

2) The world bank makes a loan to companies in an impoverished nation in which government officials typically demand bribes equal to 50% of companies' profits before allowing them to engage in any new investment project.

  • Moral hazard
  • Adverse selection
  • Making loans that would be otherwise funded in the private market
  • High level of corruption makes loans have little chance of success

3) The IMF offers to make a loan to banks in a country in which the government's rulers commonly require banks to extend credit to finance high risk investment projects headed by the rulers' friends & relatives.

  • Moral hazard
  • Adverse selection
  • Making loans that would be otherwise funded in the private market
  • High level of corruption makes loans have little chance of success

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