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%T External liberalization, specialization, and institutional change in times of globalization: the case of central, east and southeast Europe %A Frensch, Richard %P 6 %V 6 %D 2015 %@ 2199-9473 %~ IOS %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-63316-8 %X During the early nineties, central, east and southeast European countries set on liberalizing their economies on an unprecedented scale, including more or less speedy or profound external liberalizations in country-specific approaches. Since then, we have observed increasingly differentiated changes in these countries' legal institutions. Based on a small but growing literature, we may conjecture that both observations do not only describe a chronological sequence but a causal relationship. This note discusses this conjecture and argues that the globalization of production processes acts as a channel in this causal relationship. Whether or not trade liberalization helps in improving countries' domestic legal institutions depends on the nature of openness emanating from liberalization: some countries firms' joined fragmented, globalized production processes, for others, the dependence on primary products even increased. %C DEU %C Regensburg %G en %9 Arbeitspapier %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info