strategic aid recipientsʺ by the German government. -- International Trade ; Foreign Aid ; Germany … exports from Germany to the recipient countries. The findings indicate that in the long run,German aid is associated with an …This paper uses a static and dynamic gravity model of trade to investigate the link between German development aid and …

also promotes donor countries’ exports. We examine this issue using Germany as a case study where the positive impact of …

channels of official and private German aid across a large sample of recipient countries in 2005-2007. Our findings strongly … and merit are taken into account. Yet, the German case does not reveal unambiguously superior aid channels. Better … Assembly. -- Aid allocation ; aid channels ; donor motives ; Germany ; Tobit models …