title: Surrender your market! Do the G5 countries use World Bank Trade Conditionality to promote Trade?
creator: Breßlein, Martin
creator: Schmaljohann, Maya
subject: ddc-330
subject: 330 Economics
description: In this paper we investigate whether the design of World Bank conditionality, namely the extent of trade liberalization conditions, is influenced by the commercial motives of the Bank’s five major shareholders. Using a newly available dataset on World Bank conditionality we analyze the conditionality design of more than 870 projects over the 1981 – 2010 period. Our results suggest that countries of commercial interest for Germany have, on average, more trade liberalization conditions attached to their loans, indicating a trade promotion strategy. For the US, on the other hand, our results show that trading partners receive significantly fewer trade conditions. This suggests protection of the own bilateral trading relations from competition that would arise in the case of more open markets.    
date: 2013-09
type: Working paper
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/15512/1/Bresslein_Schmaljohann_2013_dp550.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00015512
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-155121
identifier:   Breßlein, Martin ; Schmaljohann, Maya  (2013) Surrender your market! Do the G5 countries use World Bank Trade Conditionality to promote Trade?  [Working paper]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/15512/
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language: eng