The Missing Window of Opportunity and Quasi-Experimental Effects of Institutional Integration: Evidence from Ukraine
Journal: Review of Law & Economics
Year: 2025

Abstract We examine the contribution of institutional integration to a country’s institutional capacity. To this end, we examine the effects of remaining outside of the European integration process for 28 Ukrainian provinces in the period 1996–2020. We construct novel, machine-learning supported subnational estimates of institutional capacity and quality for Ukraine and for central and eastern European countries that have completed institutional integration. Based on the latent residual componen