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Regional Convergence in the European Union: Do the Business Services Make the Difference?
Pintera, Jan ; Baxa, Jaromír (advisor) ; Kopečná, Vědunka (referee)
Despite years of deepening economic integration among the states and regions of the European Union, empirical research remains inconclusive about speed of convergence across regions, if not its existence. This thesis provides novel evidence on convergence in the EU while focusing on development at regional level after the Great Recession. It uses recently developed log t convergence test by Phillips and Sul (2007). Our findings speak against the convergence in level of income per capita among the European regions and give us five clubs of regions converging in their income growth rates instead. Investigating further the geographical distribution of the convergence clubs, we confirm high inequality within the member states and find large continuous area of high convergence clubs in the urbanized part of Western Europe. Furthermore, we investigated the determinants of convergence club membership using Logistic Regression. The main explanatory variable of interest were Business Services (BS), a dynamic sector of the economy with presumably strong positive effect on regional innovative potential. We found positive effect of BS on membership in higher convergence clubs. Yet, this effect seems to diminish for the very highest club.
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Regional Convergence in the European Union: Do the Business Services Make the Difference?
Pintera, Jan ; Baxa, Jaromír (advisor) ; Kopečná, Vědunka (referee)
Despite years of deepening economic integration among the states and regions of the European Union, empirical research remains inconclusive about speed of convergence across regions, if not its existence. This thesis provides novel evidence on convergence in the EU while focusing on development at regional level after the Great Recession. It uses recently developed log t convergence test by Phillips and Sul (2007). Our findings speak against the convergence in level of income per capita among the European regions and give us five clubs of regions converging in their income growth rates instead. Investigating further the geographical distribution of the convergence clubs, we confirm high inequality within the member states and find large continuous area of high convergence clubs in the urbanized part of Western Europe. Furthermore, we investigated the determinants of convergence club membership using Logistic Regression. The main explanatory variable of interest were Business Services (BS), a dynamic sector of the economy with presumably strong positive effect on regional innovative potential. We found positive effect of BS on membership in higher convergence clubs. Yet, this effect seems to diminish for the very highest club.
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Involvement of the South Bohemia in the European region Danube-Vltava
MEDVÍĎOVÁ, Jana
This bachelor thesis is focused on the theme of involvement of the South Bohemia in the European region Dunaj-Vltava. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter deals with the development of cross-border cooperation, including the definition of a region, a list of the theories of regional development, explanation of border effect and familiarization with individual European cross-border cooperation programs. The second chapter concentrates on the European regions, their organizational structure, membership, funding and activities, and gives examples of their association. The third chapter is devoted to the European region Dunaj-Vltava and involvement of one of the member regions, the South Bohemia, in its activities. The chapter describes the establishment of this European region, the way of its functioning and its participation in the development of cross-border cooperation. The fourth chapter is a practical part of this thesis. It includes a questionnaire survey, conducted among South Bohemia residents, and the analysis of its results. This survey should show us, how people, living in the European region, perceive the relationships between the Czech republic, Germany and Austria, how well they are informed about the existence and activities of the European region Dunaj-Vltava and what they think about it.
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