Post-Millennial Visegrád Four Geopolitics: Illiberalism and Positionality within the EU

Scott, James W.

doi:10.32725/det.2021.011

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“…The region has undergone socio-spatial differentiation and economic convergence, with areas in Central and Eastern Europe experiencing catch-up in the convergence process. Fiscal decentralization has been linked to economic growth rates across 16 Central and Eastern European countries, including Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia [44][45][46]. The study found that sub-national expenditure and transfers had a negative correlation with national growth rates in the region, while locally imposed taxation showed mildly positive economic benefits over time.…”

Section: Development Of the Post-socialist Regionsmentioning

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The firm geography of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans

Berkes,

Páthy,

Egyed

et al. 2024

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Over the past three decades, the region has undergone significant changes that have transformed the social, economic and political landscape. The traces of these changes are particularly visible in the post-socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. These processes have sometimes fragmented, sometimes reshaped, and sometimes transcended borders, reshaping the region. The focus of this study is on the 'geography' of companies, i.e. the concentration of companies with more than 10 employees in the region in the 15 countries selected, according to various criteria. The countries covered by the study are Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. The data of the active economic operators (over 300 thousand) of the countries included in the study were analyzed by turnover and size. The spatial distribution of enterprises at the NUTS3 level presents a far more diverse picture than what is typically observed in economic indicators such as GDP. Additionally, the disparities in this particular distribution are not as pronounced or distinct as those of general economic indicators.

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Section: Development Of the Post-socialist Regionsmentioning

confidence: 88%

The firm geography of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans

Berkes,

Páthy,

Egyed

et al. 2024

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Exploring firm performance in Central and Eastern European regions: a foundational approach

Egyed,

Zsibók

2023

HunGeoBull

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Economic development in post-transition countries is dominated by the performance of capital cities, although second-tier cities are also important drivers of development. However, peripheral regions struggle with problems of adaptation and response, often leading to brain drain and economic decline. Industrial strategies highlight those tradable sectors of the economy that favour leading edge KIBS firms and advanced manufacturing, while neglecting the residentiary economy that is more sheltered from competition and provides jobs in local production and services sectors. Our research is inspired by the burgeoning literature of the ‘foundational economy’ approach to economic development, focusing on mundane economic activities providing essential goods and services, and we investigate the differences of economic performance across the NUTS3 regions in selected CEE countries. We study regionally aggregated, firm-level financial and employment data including sectoral classification of the companies with 10+ employees. Our position is that a well-functioning foundational economy is necessary for the whole local economy to work efficiently in the long run. Moreover, increasing productivity in the foundational economy should lead to more regionally balanced growth than an exclusive focus on the ‘frontier firms’ that are highly concentrated spatially as the regional productivity gap in the case of certain foundational activities is not necessarily large.

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Twenty years of the Hungarian Regional Science Association in numbers

Berkes¹,

Zsibók²

2022

The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Touris

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This study is a retrospect on the 20 th anniversary of the founding of the Hungarian Regional Science Association. Our aim is to provide a brief but comprehensive overview of these two decades in the light of quantifiable facts and results. We use document analysis and statistical descriptive methods in order to present a compact picture of the history of the Association's development. The results of our analysis confirm the impression that the Association, after a consistent building process, is characterised by stability, and it offers a wide range of perspectives for professional cooperation between the representatives of regional science.

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Post-Millennial Visegrád Four Geopolitics: Illiberalism and Positionality within the EU

Cited by 4 publications

References 51 publications

The firm geography of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans

The firm geography of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans

Exploring firm performance in Central and Eastern European regions: a foundational approach

Twenty years of the Hungarian Regional Science Association in numbers

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