eprintid: 15512
rev_number: 16
eprint_status: archive
userid: 2744
dir: disk0/00/01/55/12
datestamp: 2013-09-16 13:47:36
lastmod: 2015-04-22 12:19:20
status_changed: 2013-09-16 13:47:36
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Breßlein, Martin
creators_name: Schmaljohann, Maya
title: Surrender your market! Do the G5 countries use World Bank Trade Conditionality to promote Trade?
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
keywords:  Foreign trade, lending, World Bank conditionality 
abstract: 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
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00015512
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0550
ppn_swb: 165301427X
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-155121
language: eng
bibsort: BRESSLEINMSURRENDERY201309
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
volume: 0550
pages: 45
citation:   Breßlein, Martin ; Schmaljohann, Maya  (2013) Surrender your market! Do the G5 countries use World Bank Trade Conditionality to promote Trade?  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/15512/1/Bresslein_Schmaljohann_2013_dp550.pdf