ABSTRACT

The transition of the former Eastern European countries from a planned to a market economy coincided with the eastward enlargement of the EU when they entered it in 2004 and 2007. Alongside the enlargement process, the EU moved to deepen integration by introducing a common currency and promoting labor mobility in the single market. The process of institutional transformation occurred both at the informal level and the formal level, both as an intended process and as an evolutionary process. Further, though the enlargement diminished the importance of the inner border of EU member countries, it created a new regional border against non-member countries. This book intends to combine the knowledge of actual situation of the EU enlargement with the task of elaborating on institutional transformation in the modern economy and developing a theoretical framework for its analysis.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART I ： Measuring Institutional Transformation
■European Economic Integration from the Viewpoint of Institutional Economics
Kiichiro Yagi
■Formal and Informal Rules in Post-Socialist Transformation
Bernard Chavance
■Balance Sheet and Prospect of EU Enlargement: A Great Success Story or the Last Nail in the Coffin of the EU?
Laszlo Csaba
■Whither "Comparative Economic Systems" in the Broader Perspective of European Integration and Globalization?
Tsuneaki Sato
■Human Rights Conditionality in the EU Eastern Enlargement Process
Kaoru Obata

PART II ： The Wider Europe and Transformation in the Market Institution
■Market Integration on the Enlarged Internal Market
Monika Jozon
■Monetary Convergence on the Road to European Monetary Union: Conceptual Issues for Eastern Europe
Nikolay Nenovsky
■Banking Sector Structures in Central European Countries during Transition and the Influence of EU Enlargement
Ko Takata
■Europeanization and the Evolution of Corporate Governance in Bulgaria
Dimiter Ialnazov
■Europeanization and Transition:
Hiroshi Tanaka
■Europeanization and Corporate reforms in Russia
Satoshi Mizobata

PART III ： The Wider Europe in the Social and Regional Institutions
■Post-Socialist Transformation of Welfare and tax Systems and the Issue of Performance in New EU Member States
Eric Magnin
■Lagging "Social Europe": Problems Related to the Social Dimensions of European Integration and Eastern Enlargement
Takumi Horibayashi
■EU Enlargement and European Environmental Governance
Kazuhiro Ueta
■Melting Boundaries? Towards a More Effective European Neighborhood Policy
Silvia Jola
■EU Enlargement, Border Question and Wider Europe
Kumiko Haba
■Conclusion: Dual Transformation and EU Enlargement
Satoshi Mizobata

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