Tracing the determinants of economic cross-border interaction in the European Union

Kallioras, Dimitris; Topaloglou, Lefteris; Venieris, Stefanos

doi:10.2298/spat0921001k

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“…Western border areas, core and accessible to the EU space, have been in a better position to exploit this market potential through new economic opportunities, as evidenced by new firm formation and increased business activity, foreign investment and tourism (Kallioras et al, 2009; Petrakos et al, 2011). The eastern peripheries, on the other hand, have been strongly disadvantaged.…”

Section: Borders Borderlands and The Implications Of Eu Enlargement For Ieasmentioning

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EU enlargement effects on cross-border informal entrepreneurial activities

Xheneti

Smallbone

Welter

2012

European Urban and Regional Studies

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Borderlands, as spaces of various forms of entrepreneurial activities, offer rich examples of informal entrepreneurial activities that depend on the border location to be developed and sustained. Although the socioeconomic contributions of informal activities have been widely acknowledged, little research has been conducted on the ways that enlargement of the European Union (EU), by affecting the openness/closedness of borders, affected the nature and extent of cross-border informal entrepreneurial activities (IEAs). Recognizing the heterogeneity of border regions, in terms of formal and social institutional structures, linguistics and ethnicity, the paper offers a nuanced and extended understanding of the difference the geography of borders, broadly defined, makes to the diversity and persistence/disappearance of cross-border IEAs since EU enlargement. Using qualitative data from interviews collected with households involved in cross-border IEAs in several EU border regions, the paper indicates that cross-border IEAs have a time dimension, reflected in the pre- and post-enlargement changes to the intensity of these activities, as well as a regional dimension, reflected in various dichotomies such as impoverished/affluent, socioculturally proximate/distant and hard/soft borders, reflected in the forms, enablers and constraints of such activities. The paper illustrates how the spatial, economic, institutional and sociocultural characteristics of a context overlap, dominate or recede at different points in time to facilitate/inhibit different forms of entrepreneurial behaviour and to encourage the involvement of, or empower, different groups of people. Thus, context, in all its dimensions, remains an important factor for spatial and temporal explanations of cross-border IEAs as particular forms of entrepreneurial activity.

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Section: Borders Borderlands and The Implications Of Eu Enlargement For Ieasmentioning

confidence: 99%

EU enlargement effects on cross-border informal entrepreneurial activities

Xheneti

Smallbone

Welter

2012

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…unit root, cointegration, and causality analyses). The issue is salient given that within the EU economic space -and much more within the Eurozone economic space -the abolition of border impediments has released dynamics and brought into surface a new mix of opportunities, threats and challenges that has been changing the balance between centripetal and centrifugal forces (Kallioras et al, 2009 andPetrakos et al, 2011;Anagnostou et al, 2016). The findings of the paper identify the long-run equi-librium and confirm the bi-directional relationships among the variables considered, thus contributing to the discussion on the relationship between tourism and economic performance.…”

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confidence: 99%

The nexus of tourism spending with economic performance: A panel data analysis for the Eurozone area

Anagnostou¹,

Ekonomou²,

Kallioras³

2021

Geographica Pannonica

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The paper investigates the nexus of tourism spending (i.e. leisure and business tourism spending) with economic performance (i.e. GDP and employment) for the Eurozone countries, during the period 2000-2018, employing sophisticated panel data analysis techniques. The issue is salient, given that within the Eurozone economic space the abolition of border impediments has released dynamics and brought into surface a new mix of opportunities, threats and challenges that has been changing the balance between centripetal and centrifugal forces. The findings of the paper identify the long-run equilibrium and confirm the bi-directional relationships among the variables considered, thus contributing to the discussion on the relationship between tourism and economic performance.

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“…The importance of the so-called border effect (Evans 2003) has been identified as a significant aspect, which induced by various barriers, represents the measure of integration boundaries for the particular parts of a region (Kallioras et al 2009). The impact of borders on the discontinuity of links was assessed e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Małgorzata Markowska, Marek Sobolewski Meinhof et al 2003), cooperation of neighbouring regions (Heimpold 2000;Janssen 2000) and cooperation with the so-called third countries (Kallioras et al 2009). …”

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The Assessment Of Geographical Borders In Economic Research

Markowska

Sobolewski

2017

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The length of common border between two geographical units is frequently used as a basic weight in spatial analysis. The newest methodological propositions such as tests for hierarchical relations (Markowska et. al. 2014; Sokołowski et. al. 2013), regional spatial moving average and new spatial correlation coefficient (Markowska et. al. 2015) are using border lengths. In cited references new methods have been illustrated by analyses for EU NUTS2 regions. It is obvious that borders between regions belonging to different countries have different socio-economic impact than borders between regions lying in the same country. A new simple method for assesment the importance of borders is proposed in the paper. It is based on a chosen macroeconomic variable available at NUTS 2 level (e.g. GDP, infant mortality, Human Development Index). For neighboring regions bigger value is divided by smaller value giving the local importance of the given border. These measures of local border importance can be than average for borders within the same country and for borders for each pair of neighboring countries.

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Tracing the determinants of economic cross-border interaction in the European Union

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

EU enlargement effects on cross-border informal entrepreneurial activities

EU enlargement effects on cross-border informal entrepreneurial activities

The nexus of tourism spending with economic performance: A panel data analysis for the Eurozone area

The Assessment Of Geographical Borders In Economic Research

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