Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/4291 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1421
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper analyses potential internal and external determinants of institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI) based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2005. We show that natural resources and capital inflows exert an insignificant or negative influence and that economic policy allows to break path-dependency. Most importantly, however, we are able to show that incentives provided by NATO membership are important for institutional development and even more robust than variables measuring the integration into the EU. This allows for some optimism about the effectiveness of ENP policies and supports the argument that NATO, offering regional security, may provide significant additional incentives for good governance.
Subjects: 
NATO
Transition Economies
Institutional Change
Governance
EU
JEL: 
P30
F20
O19
F15
P20
F50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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