Among other things, what rules must be followed by government instruments for development finance and export finance? How do funding instruments ensure that they act in a subsidiary manner, and to what extent do national interests play a role? Or is there increasing competition between state development and export financing, and does a level playing field prevail in state funding in an international comparison? In addition to Professor Andreas Klasen from the Institute for Trade and Innovation (IfTI) at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, the panel also included Ministerialrat Dr. Christoph Herfarth from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and Eoin O'Malley, Deputy Head of Department at the European Commission.

Professor Klasen also presented the results of an IfTI research project on the convergence of state development and export finance at the Export Credit Forum.