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EU enlargement and institutional development: How far away are the EU's Balkan and Black Sea neighbors?

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  • Hammermann, Felix
  • Schweickert, Rainer

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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.

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  • Hammermann, Felix & Schweickert, Rainer, 2005. "EU enlargement and institutional development: How far away are the EU's Balkan and Black Sea neighbors?," Kiel Working Papers 1261, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
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    Keywords

    Transitional Economies; EU Enlargement; Regional Integration; Economic Development; Institutions;
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    JEL classification:

    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • P20 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - General

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