Export-Import Bank Policies
As policymakers continue to debate the fate of the Export-Import Bank, research from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University calls into question the necessity of maintaining the 81-year-old government agency.
This page highlights research, charts, and commentary from a range of Mercatus scholars, demonstrating how the Export-Import Bank’s primary effect is to privilege favored firms at the expense of taxpayers and non-favored firms.
Latest work in Export-Import Bank Policies
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Export-Import Bank Has Been Underpowered for Years. Did Supporters’ Arguments Pan Out?
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Congress Just Restored the Export-Import Bank. It Still Deserves to Die.
The evidence against the agency is overwhelming.
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Corporate Welfare Wins Again in Trump’s Washington
We don’t need the Export-Import Bank, which pads the profits of politically connected corporations on the taxpayer’s dime, but it’s back anyway.
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Ex-Im Bank: A Comparative Analysis of Pre- and Post- Quorum Lending
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Accountability and the Ex-Im Bank: Country-Level Data
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Kill The Boeing Bank Once and For All
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Kill The Boeing Bank Once and For All
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
How Has Boeing Fared without the Ex-Im Bank’s Aid?
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
GM Discovers That Government Bailouts Come with Golden Chains
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
The Ex-Im Bank Is More Responsible without a Quorum
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Hypocrisy Is Baked into the Policy Process
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Ex-Im Exposure
The Export-Import Bank’s actions have left taxpayers exposed to $72.5 billion in risk, primarily through its loan guarantee program.
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Ex-Im Bank's Lack of Transparency
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Will the Export-Import Bank Rise Again?
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Ex-Im: Still "Boeing's Bank"
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Export-Import Bank Support Does Not Affect Majority of US Exports
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Pull the US out of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Export-Import Bank Doesn't Make America Great
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Export-Import Bank Returns: A Q&A with Mercatus Scholars
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Celebrating Our Independence -- from the Export-Import Bank
Latest work in Export-Import Bank Policies
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Export-Import Bank Has Been Underpowered for Years. Did Supporters’ Arguments Pan Out?
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Congress Just Restored the Export-Import Bank. It Still Deserves to Die.
The evidence against the agency is overwhelming.
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Corporate Welfare Wins Again in Trump’s Washington
We don’t need the Export-Import Bank, which pads the profits of politically connected corporations on the taxpayer’s dime, but it’s back anyway.
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Policy Briefs Policy Briefs
Ex-Im Bank: A Comparative Analysis of Pre- and Post- Quorum Lending
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Accountability and the Ex-Im Bank: Country-Level Data
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Kill The Boeing Bank Once and For All
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Kill The Boeing Bank Once and For All
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
How Has Boeing Fared without the Ex-Im Bank’s Aid?
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
GM Discovers That Government Bailouts Come with Golden Chains
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
The Ex-Im Bank Is More Responsible without a Quorum
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Hypocrisy Is Baked into the Policy Process
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Ex-Im Exposure
The Export-Import Bank’s actions have left taxpayers exposed to $72.5 billion in risk, primarily through its loan guarantee program.
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Ex-Im Bank's Lack of Transparency
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Will the Export-Import Bank Rise Again?
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Ex-Im: Still "Boeing's Bank"
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Data Visualizations Data Visualizations
Export-Import Bank Support Does Not Affect Majority of US Exports
- | Regulation Regulation
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Pull the US out of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- | International Freedom and Trade International Freedom and Trade
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Export-Import Bank Doesn't Make America Great
- | Financial Markets Financial Markets
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Export-Import Bank Returns: A Q&A with Mercatus Scholars
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Celebrating Our Independence -- from the Export-Import Bank
Latest work in Export-Import Bank Policies
Latest work in Export-Import Bank Policies
Latest work in Export-Import Bank Policies
Latest work in Export-Import Bank Policies
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Don't Buy the Ex-Im Lie
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
All Roads Lead to Washington as Congress Resurrects Ex-Im Bank
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Ex-Im: Lessons from a Government Failure
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Don't Buy the Pro-Ex-Im Hype
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Ex-Im Fight Makes a Comeback
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Shut Down the Export-Import Bank
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Ex-Im Bank Charter to Expire at Midnight
- | Government Spending Government Spending
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
State's Exports Won't Collapse If Ex-Im Bank Goes Away
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
End the Export-Import Bank
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Expecting the Export-Import Bank to Expire
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Why Letting Ex-Im Bank’s Charter Expire Won’t Lead to Massive Job Losses
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Export-Import Bank’s Green Portfolio Benefits Familiar Firms
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Time Has Come for the End of the Ex-Im Bank
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
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Big Data, Big Business, and Big Government: How Bureaucrats Are Keeping People in the Dark about the Export-Import Bank
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Hard To Justify Ex-Im Bank's Cronyism, Corruption
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Known and Unknown of the Ex-Im Bank
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Export-Import Bank Subsidizes the Already Wealthy
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
On Ex-Im Bank, the Democrats Are the Real Corporate Shills
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Ex-Im Should Go
- | Corporate Welfare Corporate Welfare
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