Five generic reforms, price liberalization, property privatization, macroeconomic stabilization, microeconomic … respond to each proposal. This can in turn be used to determine the likelihood of success of a democratic polity in transition …

Building on a model that integrates reforms into exogenous and endogenous growth models, this paper designs an … hypotheses about transition are tested using two-stage least squares on a logit model using data for six countries (Bulgaria, the … the empirical evidence. (1) Contrary to the litany that everyone favors reforms, we find that voting for strong reform …

An extensive program of economic liberalization reforms, even when it generates positive outcomes, does not … automatically generate support for further reforms. Societies respond with strong support only after experiencing the effects of … reversing these reforms (i.e. corruption, inequality of opportunity). This point is illustrated through the example of the post …

Studies on EU enlargement mostly focus on its welfare-economic and much less so on its public-choice dimension. Yet … exploring theoretically and empirically how enlargement of multi-level systems like the EU affects satisfaction with democracy … that draws on the probability of being outvoted. We find that, given the institutional arrangement, enlargement tends to …

Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue … model with search unemployment of high- and low-skilled labor, we simulate the effects of enlargement on Germany finding …

experiences with integration in Europe, especially the Southern enlargement, and the economic performance of and within the …

This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …

states will change. The enlargement will have an impact upon the efficiency of decision-making and thus requires … December 2000, has not satisfactorily prepared the Union for the enlargement. The European Convention, which worked out the … Ministers after enlargement power indices are used. This mathematical method measures the voting power of a member state in a …

output between two reference countries, Germany and France, and recent EU members and some transition economy candidates …-2000 sample period. Cointegration for the transition economies was comparable for M2 and prices, but less so for monetary policy …