TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Belke, Ansgar H.
AU  - Bordon, Ingo
AU  - Melnykovska, Inna
AU  - Schweickert, Rainer
        TI  - Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
        PY  - 2009/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4483
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4483
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - institutional change
KW  - transition economies
KW  - NATO
KW  - EU
KW  - governance
        ER  -