differences both in terms of the policies followed by the authorities and in the process of economic convergence, restructuring … per se does not guarantee convergence to the EU’s frontier(s), sustainable growth in prosperity and the degree to which …

This chapter focuses on the measurement of institutional convergence in the new EU member states and four Southern … institutional convergence. We present a new method which is based on hard micro-level data. Our approach focuses on control of … poor performance of Southern European EU countries and show the considerable differences in institutional convergence …