Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/3743 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1261
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for World Economics (IfW), Kiel
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.
Subjects: 
Transitional Economies
EU Enlargement
Regional Integration
Economic Development
Institutions
JEL: 
O10
F15
P20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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