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The conference aims at bringing together economists and political scientists working on the political economy of international organizations, in particular the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO and the EU. It will deal with questions of the institutional structure of these organizations, their impact on the incentives of the international bureaucracy, and the effects of these incentives on policy outcomes and administrative efficiency. Moreover, incentives of other political actors interacting with these institutions will be considered, in particular individual governments, commercial lobbies and NGOs. Related to this, there will be a discussion on the relationship between the policy of international organizations and the political economy within individual countries.