This is a comment on the article by Haley Swedlund and Malte Lierl, “The rise and fall of budget support: Ownership, bargaining and donor commitment problems in foreign aid” (2020), which appeared in a special issue on “Ownership in a post-aid effectiveness era: Comparative perspectives” edited by Niels Keijzer and David Black.

Swedlund and Lierl seek to explain the rise and fall of budget support from a bargaining framework on aid. This is an interesting area. Applying bargaining models for explaining aid decisions should certainly be further explored. But in my view, this particular bargaining model and the empirical evidence presented are not in line with evidence from other studies, and do not contribute much to advancing our understanding of budget support. In addition, their article does not do justice to the evidence on the positive effects of budget support.

这是对 Haley Swedlund 和 Malte Lierl 的文章“预算支持的兴衰：外援中的所有权、谈判和捐助者承诺问题”（2020 年）的评论，该文章出现在“所有权在一个帖子中” -援助有效性时代：比较视角”，Niels Keijzer 和 David Black 编辑。

Swedlund 和 Lierl 试图从援助谈判框架中解释预算支持的兴衰。这是一个有趣的领域。应用谈判模型来解释援助决定当然应该进一步探索。但在我看来，这种特殊的讨价还价模型和所提供的经验证据与其他研究的证据不一致，对增进我们对预算支持的理解没有多大帮助。此外，他们的文章没有对预算支持的积极影响的证据做出公正的评价。