EU Accession as an Instrument for Speeding up Transition

OECD Investment Policy Reviews: Slovenia 2002

“…preventing a negative impact of excessive speculative capital inflows, and although they were not directed against FDI, they have tended to discourage it. 33 © OECD 2002 c) Privatisation and enterprise restructuring. There are several aspects responsible for privatisation not having contributed enough to FDI inflows.…”

“…These were classified into six major areas: reform of the tax system, reform of the pension system, financial sector reform, reform of public utilities, price liberalisation and enterprise sector reform. 50 Over the past few years, Slovenia has fully or partially completed a number of structural reforms, such as trade liberalisation, privatisation of manufacturing, trade and service sectors (with the exception of the financial sector and public utilities), bank rehabilitation, introduction of VAT, and reform of the pension system. The extent of reforms accomplished is illustrated by Slovenia's high rankings in various international risk assessments: i) in March 2001 Euromoney's country risk ranking placed Slovenia in 33rd position among 185 countries, (with Hungary being the only Central and Eastern European country in transition with better rating, i.e.…”

The Arab and post-communist transitions: Similarities, differences, and common lessons

“…The external leverage may provide political and economic incentives, security guarantees, financial and technical aid (for the role of EU accession, see Mrak -Rojec 2013). In this respect, the history of the post-communist transition is very telling.…”

Liberalizing Reforms and the European Union: Accession, Membership, and Convergence

“…More recently, Ugur () also examines EU's effect on governance quality (measured through the ICRG and World Bank Governance Indicators) among the Central and Eastern European countries. Last, Mrak and Rojec () provide an unconditional analysis of the accession process and transition indicators, concluding that they are positively related.…”

“…4 More recently, Ugur (2013) also examines EUs effect on governance quality (measured through the ICRG and World Bank Governance Indicators) among the Central and Eastern European countries. Last, Mrak and Rojec (2013) provide an unconditional analysis of the accession process and transition indicators, concluding that they are positively related. None of the above studies provide a longer-run conditional analysis of the roles of EU membership in the determination of policy and institutional reforms while considering the full sample of European countries.…”