Browsing La Follette Working Papers by Author "Copelovitch, Mark S."

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Choose Your Weapon: International Trade Agreements and Exchange Rate Policy Choice

Copelovitch, Mark S.; Pevehouse, Jon C. (2007)

This paper examines the question of whether governments engage in "exchange rate protection" - that is, whether they actively manipulate the exchange rate and/or utilize exchange rate fluctuations as a lever to influence ...
Master or Servant? Agency Slack and the Politics of IMF Lending

Copelovitch, Mark S. (2007)

This paper argues that states and International Monetary Fund bureaucrats exercise partial but incomplete control over the fund’s lending policies. Using an original dataset of IMF lending to 47 countries from 1984-2003, ...
Uncertainty, Context, and the Duration of International Agreements

Copelovitch, Mark S.; Putnam, Tonya L. (2007)

Why are some international agreements set up to operate indefinitely while others are of limited duration? This paper argues that "institutional context" — the existing legal and institutional environment in which states ...