Professor Bernhard Reinsberg

Professor of International Political Economy and Development (Political & International Studies)

telephone: +44 (0)141 330 5988
email: Bernhard.Reinsberg@glasgow.ac.uk

Research interests

Biography

Bernhard Reinsberg is a Professor of International Political Economy and Development at the University of Glasgow and a Research Associate in Political Economy at the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Zurich, an MA in Comparative and International Studies at ETH Zurich and BA degrees in Political Science (Freie Universität Berlin) and Mathematics (University in Hagen).

His research is on the political economy of international organisations—such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund—and seeks to contribute to a better understanding of what drives their behavior and when their development interventions are effective. As awardee of a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, he examines the impact of earmarked funding to international organisations on their ability to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Research interests

International organisations
Political Economy
Development

Research groups

Publications

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Jump to: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014

Number of items: 94.

2025

Faude, Benjamin and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2025) To confront or to evade? The evolution of the international regime complex for multilateral development finance. Global Studies Quarterly, (Accepted for Publication)

Baumann, Max-Otto and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2025) Pathologies in the United Nations Development System: the role of funding structures. Global Governance, (Accepted for Publication)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Corsini, Cecilia and Zaccaria, Giuseppe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3668-549X (2025) The impacts of earmarked aid on development effectiveness and ownership. In: Hagfeldt, Simone (ed.) Financing the UN Development System: Managing Unprecedented Times. Dag Hammerskjold Foundation and UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office, pp. 131-137. ISBN 9789198739893

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2025) Doing things right versus doing the right things? Ownership’s effect on the Sustainable Development Goals. Global Policy, (doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.70063) (Early Online Publication)

Zaccaria, Giuseppe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3668-549X and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2025) Informal state influence in international organizations: examining the link between executive head nationality and earmarked funding. European Journal of International Relations, (doi: 10.1177/13540661251355045) (Early Online Publication)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Steinert, Christoph Valentin (2025) The French duty of vigilance law: reconciling human rights and firm profitability. Review of International Political Economy, (doi: 10.1080/09692290.2025.2519189) (Early Online Publication)

Heinzel, Mirko ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-8237, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Zaccaria, Giuseppe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3668-549X (2025) Core funding and the performance of international organizations: evidence from UNDP projects. Regulation and Governance, 19(3), pp. 957-976. (doi: 10.1111/rego.12632)

Kern, Andreas, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Romelli, Davide (2025) Empowering women in central banking. Journal of European Public Policy, 32(7), pp. 1746-1779. (doi: 10.1080/13501763.2024.2385458)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Steinwand, Martin C. (2025) Lead or follow? Participation decisions in collective development initiatives. Economics and Politics, 37(2), pp. 811-825. (doi: 10.1111/ecpo.12343)

Heinzel, Mirko, Kern, Andreas, Metinsoy, Saliha and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2025) Public support for green, inclusive, and resilient growth conditionality in international monetary fund bailouts. International Studies Quarterly, 69(2), sqaf018. (doi: 10.1093/isq/sqaf018)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Abouharb, M. Rodwan (2025) Structural adjustment, partisan alignment, and protest in the developing world. Journal of Peace Research, 62(3), pp. 690-706. (doi: 10.1177/00223433241231841)

Heinzel, Mirko, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Siauwijaya, Christian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6369-1907 (2025) Understanding resourcing trade-offs in international organizations: evidence from an elite survey experiment. Journal of Politics, (doi: 10.1086/736339) (Early Online Publication)

Heinzel, Mirko ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-8237, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Swedlund, Haley (2025) Transparency and citizen support for public agencies: the case of foreign aid. Governance, 38(2), e12863. (doi: 10.1111/gove.12863)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Taggart, Jack (2025) How does earmarked foreign aid affect recipient-country ownership? Journal of International Development, 37(3), pp. 773-788. (doi: 10.1002/jid.3985)

Shea, Patrick E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Kern, Andreas (2025) China lending and the political economy of leader survival. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 69(4), pp. 571-598. (doi: 10.1177/00220027241263036)

Bomprezzi, Pietro and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2025) Tracking trends in Official Development Assistance toward green jobs and skills. Documentation. International Labor Office, Geneva.

2024

Donno, Daniela, Kern, Andreas and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2024) Gendered taxation: IMF tax advice and the unintended disempowerment of women. World Tax Journal, 17(2), (doi: 10.59403/1g7np2c)

Heinzel, Mirko ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-8237, Kern, Andreas, Metinsoy, Saliha and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2024) International Monetary Fund programmes and the glass cliff effect. European Journal of Political Research, 63(4), pp. 1515-1539. (doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12660)

Heinzel, Mirko, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Zaccaria, Giuseppe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3668-549X (2024) Issue congruence in international organizations: a study of World Bank spending. Global Policy, 15(5), pp. 855-868. (doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.13413)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Kern, Andreas (2024) Elite Capital Flight: An Unintended Side Effect of the Global Financial Safety Net? Working Paper. AidData, Williamsburg, VA.

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2024) Structural adjustment. In: Warf, Barney (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Springer: Cham. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-25900-5_100-1) (Early Online Publication)

Dellepiane, Sebastian and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2024) Paradiplomacy as nation-building: the politics of Scotland’s international development policy (1999-2022). British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 26(3), pp. 886-903. (doi: 10.1177/13691481231165408)

Heinzel, Mirko ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-8237 and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2024) Trust funds and the sub-national effectiveness of development aid: evidence from the World Bank. World Development, 179, 106609. (doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106609)

Nosrati, Elias, Kern, Andreas, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Sevinc, Dilek (2024) Structural adjustment and the political economy of capital flight. Socio-Economic Review, 22(3), pp. 1047-1070. (doi: 10.1093/ser/mwad010)

Cormier, Ben, Heinzel, Mirko ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-8237 and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2024) Informally governing international development: G7 coordination and orchestration in aid. International Studies Quarterly, 68(2), sqae019. (doi: 10.1093/isq/sqae019)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2024) Informal governance in the development regime: a political economy perspective on two types of informal organizations. In: Abbott, Kenneth W. and Biersteker, Thomas J. (eds.) Informal Governance in World Politics. Cambridge University Press, pp. 74-106. ISBN 9781009180535 (doi: 10.1017/9781009180528.007)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Heinzel, Mirko and Siauwijaya, Christian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6369-1907 (2024) Tracking earmarked funding to international organizations: introducing the earmarked funding dataset. Review of International Organizations, (doi: 10.1007/s11558-024-09548-1) (Early Online Publication)

Kern, Andreas, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Lee, Claire (2024) The unintended consequences of IMF programs: women left behind in the labor market. Review of International Organizations, (doi: 10.1007/s11558-024-09542-7) (Early Online Publication)

Dreher, Axel, Lang, Valentin and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2024) Aid effectiveness and donor motives. World Development, 176, 106501. (doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106501)

Kern, Andreas, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2024) Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival. Public Choice, 198, pp. 269-295. (doi: 10.1007/s11127-023-01114-4)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Siauwijaya, Christian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6369-1907 (2024) Does earmarked funding affect the performance of international organizations. Global Policy, 15(1), pp. 23-39. (doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.13270)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2024) Institutional overlap and the survival of intergovernmental organisations. West European Politics, 48(1), pp. 29-57. (doi: 10.1080/01402382.2024.2341564)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Shaw, Daniel and Bujnoch, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3433-4116 (2024) Revisiting the security-development nexus: Human security and the effects of IMF adjustment programs. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 41(1), pp. 72-95. (doi: 10.1177/07388942221111064)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Kern, Andreas, Heinzel, Mirko ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-8237 and Metinsoy, Saliha (2024) Women’s leadership and the gendered consequences of austerity in the public sector: evidence from IMF programs. Governance, 37(1), pp. 303-321. (doi: 10.1111/gove.12764)

2023

Skeldon, K. et al. (2023) Research Firsts Exhibition. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/ZQC5P) [Exhibitions]

Abouharb, M. Rodwan and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2023) IMF Lending: Partisanship, Punishment, and Protest. Series: Cambridge Elements. Elements in international relations. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009451154 (doi: 10.1017/9781009451116)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2023) Earmarked funding and the performance of international organizations: evidence from food and agricultural development agencies. Global Studies Quarterly, 3(4), ksad056. (doi: 10.1093/isagsq/ksad056)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Swedlund, Haley (2023) How transparent are aid agencies to their citizens? Introducing the Citizen Aid Transparency Dataset. Journal of International Development, 35(7), pp. 2177-2212. (doi: 10.1002/jid.3762)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Abouharb, M. Rodwan (2023) Partisanship, protection, and punishment: how governments affect the distributional consequences of International Monetary Fund programs. Review of International Political Economy, 30(5), pp. 1851-1879. (doi: 10.1080/09692290.2022.2126513)

Kern, Andreas, Nosrati, Elias, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Sevinc, Dilek (2023) Crash for cash: offshore financial destinations and IMF programs. European Journal of Political Economy, 78, 102359. (doi: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2023.102359)

Heinzel, Mirko ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8801-8237, Cormier, Ben and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2023) Earmarked funding and the control–performance trade-off in international development organizations. International Organization, 77(2), pp. 475-495. (doi: 10.1017/S0020818323000085)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Dellepiane, Sebastian (2023) The domestic sources of sub-state foreign policymaking: determinants of subnational development cooperation across European regions. Journal of European Public Policy, 30(5), pp. 922-947. (doi: 10.1080/13501763.2022.2055111)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Westerwinter, Oliver (2023) Institutional overlap in global governance and the design of intergovernmental organizations. Review of International Organizations, 18(4), pp. 693-724. (doi: 10.1007/s11558-023-09488-2)

Konstantinidis, Nikitas and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2023) Government ownership of IMF conditionality programs: conceptualization, measurement, and validation. International Studies Quarterly, 67(4), sqad074. (doi: 10.1093/isq/sqad074)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2023) Financing the Future: Multilateral Development Banks in the Changing World Order of the 21st Century. Global Policy Blog, [Book Review]

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Stubbs, Thomas and Bujnoch, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3433-4116 (2023) Structural adjustment, alienation, and mass protest. Social Science Research, 109, 102777. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102777)

2022

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Dellepiane, Sebastian (2022) Development co-operation by European regions: introducing the subnational donor governance dataset. Development Policy Review, 40(6), e12608. (doi: 10.1111/dpr.12608)

Kern, Andreas and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2022) The political economy of Chinese debt and International Monetary Fund conditionality. Global Studies Quarterly, 2(4), ksac062. (doi: 10.1093/isagsq/ksac062)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Stubbs, Thomas and Kentikelenis, Alexander (2022) Compliance, defiance, and the dependency trap: International Monetary Fund program interruptions and their impact on capital markets. Regulation and Governance, 16(4), pp. 1022-1041. (doi: 10.1111/rego.12422)

Dietrich, Simone, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Steinwand, Martin C. (2022) Donor bureaucratic organisation and the pursuit of performance-based aid through multilateral trust funds. Journal of International Relations and Development, 25(3), pp. 709-738. (doi: 10.1057/s41268-022-00259-x)

Kentikelenis, Alexander, Stubbs, Thomas and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2022) The IMF and the Road to a Green and Inclusive Recovery after Covid-19. Documentation. Cambridge Centre for Business Research (CBR) Special Report. (doi: 10.17863/CAM.86038).

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Stubbs, Thomas and Kentikelenis, Alexander (2022) Unimplementable by design? Understanding (non-)compliance with International Monetary Fund policy conditionality. Governance, 35(3), pp. 689-715. (doi: 10.1111/gove.12605)

Kern, Andreas, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Shea, Patrick E. (2022) IMF Programs, Chinese Lending, and the Political Economy of Leader Survival. Working Paper #118. Working Paper. AidData at William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA.

2021

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Kern, Andreas and Rau-Göhring, Matthias (2021) The political economy of IMF conditionality and central bank independence. European Journal of Political Economy, 68, 101987. (doi: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101987)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Kentikelenis, Alexander and Stubbs, Thomas (2021) Creating crony capitalism: neoliberal globalization and the fueling of corruption. Socio-Economic Review, 19(2), pp. 607-634. (doi: 10.1093/ser/mwz039)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Westerwinter, Oliver (2021) The global governance of international development: documenting the rise of multi-stakeholder partnerships and identifying underlying theoretical explanations. Review of International Organizations, 16(1), pp. 59-94. (doi: 10.1007/s11558-019-09362-0)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2021) Fully-automated liberalism? Blockchain technology and international cooperation in an anarchic world. International Theory, 13(2), pp. 287-313. (doi: 10.1017/S1752971920000305)

2020

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Stubbs, Thomas, Kentikelenis, Alexander and King, Lawrence (2020) Bad governance: how privatization increases corruption in developing countries. Regulation and Governance, 14(4), pp. 698-717. (doi: 10.1111/rego.12265)

Bernards, Nick, Campbell-Verduyn, Malcolm, Rodima-Taylor, Daivi, Duberry, Jerome, DuPont, Quinn, Dimmelmeier, Andreas, Huetten, Moritz, Mahrenbach, Laura C., Porter, Tony and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2020) Interrogating technology-led experiments in sustainability governance. Global Policy, 11(4), pp. 523-531. (doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.12826)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Stubbs, Thomas and Kentikelenis, Alexander (2020) Taxing the people, not trade: the International Monetary Fund and the structure of taxation in developing countries. Studies in Comparative International Development, 55(3), pp. 278-304. (doi: 10.1007/s12116-020-09307-4)

Michaelowa, Katharina, Michaelowa, Axel, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Shishlov, Igor (2020) Do multilateral development bank trust funds allocate climate finance efficiently? Sustainability, 12(14), 5529. (doi: 10.3390/su12145529)

Stubbs, Thomas, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Kentikelenis, Alexander and King, Lawrence (2020) How to evaluate the effects of IMF conditionality: an extension of quantitative approaches and an empirical application to public education spending. Review of International Organizations, 15(1), pp. 29-73. (doi: 10.1007/s11558-018-9332-5)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Shishlov, Igor, Michaelowa, Katharina and Michaelowa, Axel (2020) Climate Change-related Trust Funds at the Multilateral Development Banks. Documentation. Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development/ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Berlin.

2019

Kern, Andreas, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Rau-Göhring, Matthias (2019) IMF conditionality and central bank independence. European Journal of Political Economy, 59, pp. 212-229. (doi: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2019.03.002)

Szent-Iványi, Balázs, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Lightfoot, Simon (2019) Small donors in world politics: the role of trust funds in the foreign aid policies of Central and Eastern European donors. European Journal of Development Research, 31(3), pp. 663-683. (doi: 10.1057/s41287-018-0175-y)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2019) Do countries use foreign aid to buy geopolitical influence? Evidence from donor campaigns for temporary UN Security Council seats. Politics and Governance, 7(2), pp. 127-154. (doi: 10.17645/pag.v7i2.1837)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2019) Blockchain technology and the governance of foreign aid. Journal of Institutional Economics, 15(3), pp. 413-429. (doi: 10.1017/S1744137418000462)

Forster, Timon, Kentikelenis, Alexander E., Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Stubbs, Thomas H. and King, Lawrence P. (2019) How structural adjustment programs affect inequality: a disaggregated analysis of IMF conditionality, 1980–2014. Social Science Research, 80, pp. 83-113. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.01.001)

Daoud, Adel and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2019) Structural adjustment, state capacity, and child health: evidence from IMF programs. International Journal of Epidemiology, 48(2), pp. 445-454. (doi: 10.1093/ije/dyy251) (PMID:30521004)

Daoud, Adel, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Kentikelenis, Alexander E., Stubbs, Thomas H. and King, Lawrence P. (2019) The International Monetary Fund’s interventions in food and agriculture: An analysis of loans and conditions. Food Policy, 83, pp. 204-218. (doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.01.005)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Kentikelenis, Alexander, Stubbs, Thomas and King, Lawrence (2019) The world system and the hollowing out of state capacity: how structural adjustment programs affect bureaucratic quality in developing countries. American Journal of Sociology, 124(4), pp. 1222-1257. (doi: 10.1086/701703)

Coutts, Adam, Daoud, Adel, Fakih, Ali, Marrouch, Walid and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2019) Guns and butter? Military expenditure and health spending on the eve of the Arab Spring. Defence and Peace Economics, 30(2), pp. 227-237. (doi: 10.1080/10242694.2018.1497372)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Stubbs, Thomas, Kentikelenis, Alexander and King, Lawrence (2019) The political economy of labor market deregulation during IMF interventions. International Interactions, 45(3), pp. 532-559. (doi: 10.1080/03050629.2019.1582531)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2019) Do Countries Use Foreign Aid to Buy Geopolitical Influence? Evidence from Donor Campaigns for Temporary UN Security Council Seats. WIDER Working Paper 4/2019. Working Paper. UNU-WIDER. (doi: 10.35188/UNU-WIDER/ 2019/638-8).

2018

Michaelowa, Katharina, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Schneider, Christina J. (2018) The politics of double delegation in the European Union. International Studies Quarterly, 62(4), pp. 821-833. (doi: 10.1093/isq/sqy034)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2018) Blockchain technology and international relations: Decentralized solutions to foster cooperation in an anarchic world. Working Paper. Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2018) Blockchain technology and the governance of foreign aid. Working Paper. Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

2017

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2017) Xu, Jiajun. 2017. Beyond US Hegemony in International Development: The Contest for Influence at the World Bank. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Review of International Organizations, 12(3), pp. 491-495. (doi: 10.1007/s11558-017-9269-0)[Book Review]

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2017) Trust funds as a lever of influence at international development organizations. Global Policy, 8(S5), pp. 85-95. (doi: 10.1111/1758-5899.12464)

Michaelowa, Katharina, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Schneider, Christina (2017) Multi-bi aid in European development assistance: the role of capacity constraints and member state politics. Development Policy Review, 35(4), pp. 513-530. (doi: 10.1111/dpr.12193)

Daoud, Adel, Nosrati, Elias, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Kentikelenis, Alexander E., Stubbs, Thomas H. and King, Lawrence P. (2017) Impact of International Monetary Fund programs on child health. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(25), pp. 6492-6497. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1617353114) (PMID:28507158) (PMCID:PMC5488917)

Eichenauer, Vera Z. and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2017) What determines earmarked funding to international development organizations? Evidence from the new multi-bi aid data. Review of International Organizations, 12(2), pp. 171-197. (doi: 10.1007/s11558-017-9267-2)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2017) Organizational reform and the rise of trust funds: lessons from the World Bank. Review of International Organizations, 12(2), pp. 199-226. (doi: 10.1007/s11558-017-9268-1)

Michaelowa, Katharina, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Schneider, Christina (2017) The Politics of Double-Delegation in the European Union. Working Paper. Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), Zurich.

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2017) Five steps to smarter multi-bi aid: a new way forward for earmarked finance. Project Report. Overseas Development Institute, London.

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Michaelowa, Katharina and Knack, Stephen (2017) Which donors, which funds? Bilateral donors' choice of multilateral funds at the World Bank. International Organization, 71(4), pp. 767-802. (doi: 10.1017/S0020818317000340)

2016

Eichenauer, Vera Z. and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2016) What determines earmarked funding to international development organizations? Evidence from the new multi-bi aid data. Working Paper. Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), Zurich.

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2016) The implications of multi-bi financing for multilateral agencies: the example of the World Bank. In: Klingebiel, Stephan, Mahn, Timo and Negre, Mario (eds.) The Fragmentation of Aid: Concepts, Measurements and Implications for Development Cooperation. Series: Rethinking international development series. Palgrave Macmillan: London, pp. 185-198. ISBN 9781137553560 (doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-55357-7_13)

2015

Eichenauer, V. and Reinsberg, B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2015) What determines French multi-bi aid? A comparative analysis of funding patterns of global funds and trust funds at international development organizations. Project Report. Agence Française de Développement.

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2015) Foreign aid responses to political liberalization. World Development, 75, pp. 46-61. (doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.11.006)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Michaelowa, Katharina and Eichenauer, Vera Z. (2015) The rise of multi-bi aid and the proliferation of trust finds. In: Arvin, B. Mak and Lew, Byron (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 527-554. ISBN 9781783474578 (doi: 10.4337/9781783474592)

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X, Michaelowa, Katharina and Knack, Stephen (2015) Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank. Project Report. World Bank Group.

2014

Eichenauer, Vera Z. and Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2014) Multi-bi aid: Tracking the evolution of earmarked funding to international development organizations from 1990 to 2012 (Codebook). Working Paper. Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), Zurich.

Herrmann, Sophie, Kükenshöner, Christina, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Tesfaye, Yared (2014) Analysis of the German trust fund portfolio at the World Bank and guidance on reforms. Project Report. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Berlin. (doi: 10.5167/uzh-114802).

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Articles

Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X (2015) Foreign aid responses to political liberalization. World Development, 75, pp. 46-61. (doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.11.006)

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Skeldon, K. et al. (2023) Research Firsts Exhibition. (doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/ZQC5P) [Exhibitions]

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Grants

Research grants held as 'Principal Investigator' from 01/07/2017

UK Research & Innovation, Future Leaders Fellowship (renewal), "From Evidence to Action: Understanding the Impact of Funding Modalities on Development Policymaking" (GBP 567,000)
UK Research & Innovation, Future Leaders Fellowship, "Earmarked funding and the effectiveness of international organizations" (GBP 1.4 million)
Radboud-Glasgow Collaboration Fund, "Fact or Fear? How negative information shapes public and elite views on foreign aid" (GBP 12,363)
Radboud-Glasgow Collaboration Fund, "Organizing for development: How donor governance affects aid allocation and aid effectiveness" (GBP 18,250)
Gerda Henkel Foundation, "The human security implications of IMF programs", Special Research Programme "Security, Society and the State" (EUR 52,250)
Carnegie Trust, Research Incentive Grant, "Subnational development cooperation: A new research agenda" (GBP 13,748)
ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, "Blockchain technology and global governance" (GBP 3,000)
University of Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Fund, "Blockchain technology and foreign aid" (GBP 1,650)
College of Social Sciences Strategic Incentive Grant, "Extending the multi-bi aid dataset to study the effectiveness of earmarked funding" (GBP 3,600)
Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance / Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust / CRASSH Conference Support, "Transformations in Global Economic Governance" conference (GBP 7,360)

Supervision

Prospective students

I am most interested in supervising PhD students on the following topics:

International organisation(s)
Global Governance
Foreign aid
Development finance
Earmarked funding
Blockchain technology

I am also able to supervise PhD projects on the following topics:

Trade governance
Financial regulation
Security-development nexus

Please do not hesitate to get in touch. If you wish me to supervise your PhD project, please attach a short research proposal, curriculum vitae, transcript of records, and a writing sample.

Current students

XU, DAN
A shift in the mode of global governance? Indirect governance by informal intergovernmental organisations (IIGOs) through intermediaries

Teaching

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International Political Economy
International Organizations

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International Relations Research Design

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2022: Socio-Economic Review Best Paper Prize (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE))
2019: Gavin C Reid Prize for the Best Paper by a CBR Early Career Researcher (University of Cambridge, Centre for Business Research (CBR))

Grant committees & research advisory boards

2022 - -: UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships, Peer Review College
2023 - -: Economic and Social Research Council, Peer Review College

Editorial boards

2019 - 2025: Politics & Governance
2019 - -: PLOS ONE
2024 - -: Politics

Professional & learned societies

2022 - -: Committee member, Standing Group on International Relations, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
2023 - -: Program Committee member, Political Economy of Aid Society (PEAS)

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News coverage

“How human rights laws and economic competitive co-exist”, SciPod (August 22, 2025)

“Lieferketten: Beeinflussen ethische Standards den Preis?”, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (August 28, 2025)

“The French Duty of Vigilance Law: Reconciling human rights and firm profitability”, Social Sciences Hub (July 31, 2025)

“Economic success and ethical supply chains not mutually exclusive”, UZH News (July 29, 2025)

“Opinion: Don’t panic, history shows development organizations can survive budget cuts”, Devex (March 17, 2025)

“Cooperation in Crisis (Part two): How should the aid sector respond?”, Centre for Public Policy (March 14, 2025)

“Cooperation in Crisis (Part one): The impact of US aid agency shutdowns”, Centre for Public Policy (March 11, 2025)

“The impacts of earmarked aid on development effectiveness and ownership”, Global Partnership on Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) (February 17, 2025)

“Warum braucht es Weltbank und IWF?”, ZDF.de (July 23, 2024)

"The rise of earmarking and how it affects aid effectiveness", University of Glasgow Social Sciences Hub (March 6, 2024)

"No G20, Brasil se engaja na reforma de órgãos multilaterais", Interview with DW (February 29, 2024)

“Scotland’s approach to international development”, University of Glasgow Social Sciences Hub (February 27, 2024)

“Localizing Sustainable Development: Why sub-state governments become increasingly engaged in international development cooperation”, Scottish Council on Global Affairs (SCGA) Policy Insight (February 24, 2024)

“Towards A Feminist Foreign Policy For Scotland: Partners, Pitfalls, Possibilities”, Scottish Council on Global Affairs (SCGA) Policy Insight (December 2023)

“IMF bailouts: how governments use them to hurt political opponents — new research”, The Conversation (November 11, 2023)

“Tagung von IWF und Weltbank: Welche Reformen sind nötig?”, Interview with Deutschlandfunk, Der Tag (13 October 2023)

“Opinion: Aid agencies should be more transparent to taxpayers”, Devex (31 March 2023)

“IMF must work harder to avoid payments being used as a partisan tool“, University of Glasgow, School of Social and Political Sciences (October 19, 2022)

“Why IMF comments on the UK economy spooked traders and investors”, The Conversation (September 30, 2022)

“Does the International Monetary Fund undermine human security?”, The Loop (ECPR blog) (August 4, 2022)

“75 Jahre Internationaler Währungsfonds: Wie die Ärmsten unter Hilfskrediten leiden“, Interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur (March 1, 2022)

“Business as Usual or Breaking With the Past? IMF Tax Advice in the Covid-19 Era,” Austaxpolicy: Tax and Transfer Policy Blog (October 4, 2021)

“When central bank independence becomes a condition for International Monetary Fund loans,” LSE Business Review (October 1, 2021)

“Lots of IMF programmes are never completed – because they’re unworkable” The Conversation (July 12, 2021)

“Ein starker Zusammenhang zwischen IWF-Präsenz und Massendemonstrationen,” LISA Wissenschaftsportal — Gerda-Henkel Stiftung (December 8, 2020) — re-published in Blickpunkt WiSO (December 19, 2020)

"Three ways blockchain could get the world to act against the climate crisis," The Conversation (June 11, 2020) — re-published in The Global (June 23, 2020)

"How IMF programmes can increase corruption," The Conversation (September 27, 2019)

"Privatization increases corruption," Inter Press Service, Op-ed by Jomo K. Sundaram (July 23, 2019)

"IMF says it cares about inequality -- but will it change its ways?" The Conversation (July 17, 2019)

"Privatization and corruption," Insight, Judge Business School, Cambridge (July 9, 2019)

"IMF’s conditionalities," Business Recorder (March 20, 2019)

"IMF policy reforms weaken the state, study finds," University News, University of Glasgow (March 15, 2019)

"Blockchain and Foreign Aid Governance." Hashreader (July 19, 2018).

"Hilfsgelder auf Umwegen." UZH news (October 7, 2014).

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Dr Bernhard Reinsberg is in the leadership team of the College of Social Sciences interdisciplinary research theme Political Economy Future Forum (PEFF) and therein convenes the Global Political Economy Research Network. He is a member of the Global Sustainable Development theme in the Advanced Research Centre of the University of Glasgow.

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