Sources of Growth

Rainer Schweickert, Inna Melnykovska, Erich Gundlach, Frank Bickenbach, Ingrid Ott

This project which was completed in 2009 analyzed the impact of institutions, government policies and infrastructure on growth and convergence of lagging economies. The project focussed on the role of EU neighborhood policies for the development of Ukraine and the Baltic countries.

Publications

• Schweickert, R., Melnykovska, I., Gawrich, A. (2010).  Neighborhood Europeanization through ENP - the Case of Ukraine. Journal of Common Market Studies, 48(5), 1209-1235.

• Melnykovska, I., Schweickert, R. (2009).  Wirtschaftsinteressen und institutioneller Wandel in der Ukraine - vernachlässigtes Potential der Europäischen Nachbarschaftspolitik der EU.  UkraineAnalysen, 54, 9-17.
• Schweickert, R., Melnykovska, I. (2009).  Europäisierungsmotor. Die NATO und die Ukraine.  Osteuropa, 9, 49-64.

• Gundlach, E. (2008).  Armut und Reichtum in der Weltwirtschaft: Ursachen und Konsequenzen.  
  Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, 55 (3), 533-546.
• Melnykovska, I., Schweickert, R. (2008).  Bottom-Up or Top-Down – What Drives the Convergence of Ukraine’s Institutions towards European Standards.  Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol.8, No.4, 445-468.
• Melnykovska, I.  Towards New Horizons through Different Paths: Colour Revolution or Soft Authoritarianism?.
   Europe-Asia Studies
• Ott, I., Soretz, S. (2008).  Governmental activity, integration, and agglomeration.  
  Kiel Working Paper, 1465, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, 33 pp.

• Afanasyeva, E., Hammermann, F., Schweickert, R. (2007).  From a Soviet Past to a European Future? Political and Economic Developments in Ukraine.  International Journal of Economics, 1(2), 119-141.
• Bickenbach, F., Soltwedel, R., Wolf, H. (2007).  Institutionelle Reformen für eine rationale Flughafeninfrastrukturpolitik.  Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 56, 108-134.
• Gundlach, E., Hartmann, S. (2007).  Untangling the Quality of Governance from the Level of Income: Are Sub-Saharan African Countries Governed Differently?.  European Journal of Development Research, 19 (4), 503-528.

• Carstensen, K., Gundlach, E. (2006).  The Primacy of Institutions Reconsidered: Direct Income Effects of Malaria Prevalence.  World Bank Economic Review, 20(3), 309-339.

• Bickenbach, F., Kumkar, L., Sichelschmidt, H., Soltwedel, R., Wolf, H. (2005).  Ausbau der Flughafeninfrastruktur: Konflikte und institutionelle Lösungsansätze. . Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.
• Gundlach, E. (2005).  Solow vs. Solow: Notes on Identification and Interpretation in the Empirics of Growth and Development.  Review of World Economics, 141 (3), 541-556.
• Gundlach, E., Hartmann, S. (2005).  Untangling the Quality of Governance from the Level of Income: Are Sub-Saharan African Countries Governed Well?.  Kiel Working Paper, 1241, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 42 pp.
• Hammermann, F., Hansen, M., Schweickert, R. (2005).  Institutional Development and EU-Integration – the Case of the Baltic Countries.  Baltic Economic Trends, 3