The Catching up Processes of the Regions of the Visegrad Group Countries
The majority of Central and Eastern European post‑socialist countries acceded to the European Union in 2004. The integration of these economies to the Union had begun earlier, which was strengthened by grants from the Structural Funds after the accession. One of their aims is to facilitate the catch...
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| description | The majority of Central and Eastern European post‑socialist countries acceded to the European Union in 2004. The integration of these economies to the Union had begun earlier, which was strengthened by grants from the Structural Funds after the accession. One of their aims is to facilitate the catching up processes of less developed regions and their convergence to the average of older member states. In our study1, we examine the success of the catching up processes of the NUTS3 regions in the four Visegrad Group countries (V4), i.e., the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, between 2000 and 2014 to the average of the 15 initial member states of the European Union. Is there a process of catching up in each region, and if so, is it at a similar or a highly different rate? We analyze the development of GDP per capita at Purchasing Power Parity, and we examine disparities in the level of catching up using entropy‑based Theil indexes. We provide a detailed analysis of two of the influencing factors of the catching up process of regions. Firstly, we look at whether the catching up process of the regions took place in a similar or very different way compared to the national average. Secondly, we examine how the size of the biggest city of the regions affected catching up, and whether the role of the biggest city of region can be shown. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-523d8c483f51413993822e9630267b1a2022-12-21T18:38:16ZengLodz University PressComparative Economic Research1508-20082082-67372018-12-0121452410.2478/cer-2018-00243877The Catching up Processes of the Regions of the Visegrad Group CountriesImre Lengyel0Balázs Kotosz1Ph.D., Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Szeged, Szeged, HungaryPh.D., Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Szeged, Szeged, HungaryThe majority of Central and Eastern European post‑socialist countries acceded to the European Union in 2004. The integration of these economies to the Union had begun earlier, which was strengthened by grants from the Structural Funds after the accession. One of their aims is to facilitate the catching up processes of less developed regions and their convergence to the average of older member states. In our study1, we examine the success of the catching up processes of the NUTS3 regions in the four Visegrad Group countries (V4), i.e., the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, between 2000 and 2014 to the average of the 15 initial member states of the European Union. Is there a process of catching up in each region, and if so, is it at a similar or a highly different rate? We analyze the development of GDP per capita at Purchasing Power Parity, and we examine disparities in the level of catching up using entropy‑based Theil indexes. We provide a detailed analysis of two of the influencing factors of the catching up process of regions. Firstly, we look at whether the catching up process of the regions took place in a similar or very different way compared to the national average. Secondly, we examine how the size of the biggest city of the regions affected catching up, and whether the role of the biggest city of region can be shown.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/CER/article/view/3877economic catching upvisegrad group countriesnuts3 regionstheil indexbreakpointagglomeration economies |
| spellingShingle | Imre Lengyel Balázs Kotosz The Catching up Processes of the Regions of the Visegrad Group Countries Comparative Economic Research economic catching up visegrad group countries nuts3 regions theil index breakpoint agglomeration economies |
| title | The Catching up Processes of the Regions of the Visegrad Group Countries |
| title_full | The Catching up Processes of the Regions of the Visegrad Group Countries |
| title_fullStr | The Catching up Processes of the Regions of the Visegrad Group Countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Catching up Processes of the Regions of the Visegrad Group Countries |
| title_short | The Catching up Processes of the Regions of the Visegrad Group Countries |
| title_sort | catching up processes of the regions of the visegrad group countries |
| topic | economic catching up visegrad group countries nuts3 regions theil index breakpoint agglomeration economies |
| url | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/CER/article/view/3877 |
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