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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Ansgar Belke, Ingo Bordon (), Inna Melnykovska () and Rainer Schweickert
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Ingo Bordon: University of Duisburg-Essen
Inna Melnykovska: University of Kiel

No 4483, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on 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 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and NATO clearly matter for institutional development. In addition, path-dependency determined by cultural norms may be overcome by economic liberalization while foreign aid seems to hamper institutional development.

Keywords: institutional change; transition economies; NATO; EU; governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 F20 F50 O19 P20 P30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2009-10
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Published - published in: Economics of Transition, 2011, 19 (4), 667-692

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