Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1261:
EU Enlargement and Institutional Development: How Far Away Are the EU’s Balkan an Black Sea Neighbors?
Felix Hammermann and Rainer Schweickert
Abstract: Institutional development in new and potential member
countries determines the success of both the catching-up of developing
European countries and the deepening of the European integration process.
This paper argues that the timing of future enlargement should depend on
institutional convergence between the EU and potential accession
candidates. Therefore, the paper looks at institutional quality in the EU,
in the EU’s neighboring Balkan and Black Sea regions, and especially in
Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Turkey, and Ukraine, i.e. the next countries in
the queue for entry or likely to lobby for entry into the EU. Three
dimensions of institutional quality—legislative, administrative, and
judicative institutions—are analyzed on the basis of the World Bank
Governance Indicators using institutional quality in EU member states as a
benchmark in order to reveal institutional deficits.
Keywords: Institutions, Transitional Economies, EU Enlargement, Regional Integration, Economic Development; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: P20,; F15,; O10; (follow links to similar papers)
27 pages, November 2005
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