KVALITET INSTITUCIJA I EKONOMSKI RAST ZEMALJA EVROPSKE UNIJE I ZAPADNOG BALKANA

The paper analyzes the intensity of the influence of the quality of institutions according to the data from the World Bank's specialized Worldwide Governance Indicators database on the growth of gross domestic product per capita of 33 countries of Europe through linear and exponential regression analysis for the period from 1996 to 2016. The observed European countries are divided into three groups: 15 European Union member states in 1995; 13 EU member states from 2004, 2007 and 2013, as well as five countries of the Western Balkans that negotiate or have the status of a candidate for EU membership, in the period from 1996 to 2016. The results of the research have shown that the quality of the institutions had a very positive impact on the economic growth of the observed countries of Europe. According to statistics, positive interdependence is the most significant among the Western Balkan countries. The conclusion is that these countries have to pay special attention to the development of institutions in the process of joining the European Union.U radu je ispitavan intenzitet uticaja kvaliteta institucija prema podacima iz specijalizovane baze Svetske banke Worldwide Governance Indicators na rast bruto domaćeg proizvoda per capita 33 zemlje Evrope putem linearne i eksponencijalne regresione analize za vremenski period 1996-2016. Sagledavane zemlje Evrope su razvrstane u tri grupe: 15 zemalja članica Evropske unije zaključlno sa 1995. godinom; 13 zemalja EU članica iz 2004, 2007. i 2013. godine, kao i pet zemalja Zapadnog Balkana koje pregovaraju ili imaju status kandidata za članstvo u EU, u periodu 1996-2016. Rezultati istraživanja su pokazali da je kvalitet institucija imao izrazito pozitivan uticaj na ekonomski rast sagledavanih zemalja Evrope. Pozitivna međuzavisnost je statistički najizraženija kod grupacije zemalja Zapadnog Balkana. Zaključak je da ove zemlje moraju u procesu pridruživanja Evropskoj uniji posebnu pažnju posvetiti razvoju institucija