Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions are a main reason. The EU anchor thesis … posits that the prospect of membership in the European Union (EU) played a key role in filling in the institutional vacuum …, focusing on whether the prospect of EU membership accelerated institutional development and, if so, whether this was indeed …

European Union (EU) enlargement, when all candidate countries joined the Single Market but one â Norway â did not join the EU …

(EU) after the 1995 enlargement. Our main finding is that the relationship between bureaucratic independence and judiciary … capacity seems to be the key engine of the process of state capacity building engendered by the prospect of EU membership. Deep …

discrete hazard analysis is used and the duration dependence is captured with time dummies. In almost all the 14 EU Member …

The eastern enlargements of the EU in 2004 and 2007 have stimulated the mobility of workers from the new EU8 and EU2 …, leading to a more efficient allocation of resources within the enlarged EU …

comparison to migrants from the new member states that joined the EU in 2004 (EUA8 countries). Migrants from the EaP countries …

-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004 enlargement. We consider two baseline policy scenarios, with and without accession of … sending countries to the EU. Our results show that migration flows are driven by migration costs and economic conditions, but …

ultimately on economic growth in EU, but it is limited in magnitude. Moreover, the effect of FDI on growth is stronger for New EU …