Application of the Perkal method for assessing competitiveness of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe

Kruk, Hanna; Waśniewska, Anetta

doi:10.24136/oc.v8i3.21

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“…The composite indicators are very convenient tools as they: (i) summarise multidimensional realities, (ii) are easier to interpret than a set of many separate indicators, (iii) reduce the visible size of a set of indicators without dropping the underlying information base, (iv) enable users to compare complex dimensions effectively (OECD JRC, 2008;Santos, Santos, 2014). Thus a growing interest in composite indicators should not be surprising as they may be applied in many different fields: innovation (Żelazny, Pietrucha, 2017;Balcerzak, Pietrzak, 2017a), health care system performance (Łyszczarz, 2016), real estate markets analysis (Małkowska, Głuszak, 2016) countries' competitiveness (Kruk, Waśniewska, 2017), socioeconomic development (Bartkowiak-Bakun, 2017), quality of institutions (Balcerzak, Pietrzak, 2017b), sustainable development , standard of living (Kuc, 2017) and many others. However, one has to be aware of the fact that they are not free of defects: (i) may be disused to support a desired policy, (ii) may disguise serious falling in some dimensions if a construction process is not transparent, (iii) are sensitive to normalization, aggregation and weighting methods, (iv) a selection of indicators and their weights may be subjective (OECD JRC, 2008;Ravallion, 2010, Paroulo, Saisana, Saltelli, 2013Santos, Santos, 2014).…”

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Is the Regional Divergence a Price for the International Convergence? The Case of the Visegrad Group

Kuc‐Czarnecka¹

2017

JOC

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The main goal of this article is to verify whether the Visegrad Group countries are achieving social convergence at national level at the expense of internal divergence. For this purpose, the existence of social beta-, sigma-and gamma-convergence at national and regional level was tested. The author of this article decided to tackle the convergence problem since there is a high risk that countries are trying to catch up at international level even at the expense of increasing internal differences. This trade off could be framed as undesirable from a cohesion policy point of view. Achieving convergence is not only important for inhabitants' standard of living but for regions' and countries' competitiveness as well. In today's turbulent and globalised world, regions must become more resilient and competitive, and this cannot be done without adequate human capital. Dealing with present unsustainable trends of many kinds, regions are forced to create the best living conditions in order to avoid the brain drain. In this article, a spatial taxonomy measure of development (Pietrzak, 2016) was used to compare the Visegrad Group countries performance with respect to their internal cohesion in the period of 2004-2014. It seems that the inclusion of spatial relationships is justified because nowadays, no region develops in isolation. Therefore, the situation in each region is influenced by neighbourhood.

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Is the Regional Divergence a Price for the International Convergence? The Case of the Visegrad Group

Kuc‐Czarnecka¹

2017

JOC

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“…, that refer to objects Oi, Ok,, where  means that object Ok is preferred to object Oi. This means that a minimum value of variable is preferred Kruk & Waśniewska, 2017). stimulant Area 2 -Poverty and Social Exclusion X7 -At-risk-of-poverty rate after social transfers.…”

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Entrepreneurial environment at regional level: the case of Polish path towards sustainable socio-economic development

Pietrzak¹,

Balcerzak²,

Gajdos³

et al. 2017

JESI

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Globalization process creates fovurable conditions for dynamic development of economic centers both at national and regional level. Yet, it may be an obstacle for growth for peripheral countries and regions. In the European Union one can confirm convergence process at national level. However, in Central European countries the convergence of national economies does not support sustainable growth at regional level and regional convergence process. This situation often leads to the problem of draining up of scarce resources from peripheral regions, which negatively affects their entrepreneurship potential and sustainable socio-economic development. In the longer run this unbalanced spatial growth can become a significant obstacle for welfare improvements. In this context, the purpose of the article is to analyze the quality of entrepreneurial environment in Poland at regional level within the context of sustainability framework. The research was done for NUTS 2 regions in the years 2010-2014. The quality of entrepreneurial environment is considered here as a multiple-criteria phenomenon that should be treated as a latent variable. Thus, in the research Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis was applied. Values of the latent variable were assessed based on confirmatory factor analysis, which provided information on the socio-economic development of Polish regions, which determinates the entrepreneurial conditions. In order to group the regions to homogenous subsets natural breaks method was used. The conducted research confirms the process of improvement of entrepreneurial conditions in most of the NUTS 2 regions in Poland. From the perspective of regional convergence process, on the one hand, one can point some positive factors such as noticeable improvements in some underdeveloped regions. However, the dominance of the central region and significant disparities between the NUTS 2 are still relatively stable and extensive. From the methodological perspective the article shows the applicability of SEM methodology to national and regional analysis with application of data from national statistics.

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“…The current research is consistent to a high extent with previous studies of the Author [5], where the assumption on equal weights with regard to institutional aspects was taken, and contributions of other researchers in the field, which were devoted to multiple-criteria analysis of institutional factors in the EU countries. But it must be stressed that most of these other studies were concentrated on more widely defined institutional factors not always directly relating to the knowledgebased economy and the level of international competitiveness [48,49,50,30,33]. That result can be interpreted in favour of the new institutional economics postulates, in spite of the variety of approaches to defining institutions and variety of methodologies for their quantifying there is still one big picture with a common message, where the economic success is directly related not only to good macroeconomic policies, but also effective reforming of institutional economic order.…”

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Quality of Institutions in the European Union countries. Application of TOPSIS Based on Entropy Measure for Objective Weighting

Balcerzak¹

2020

ACTA POLYTECH HUNG

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The relation between the quality of institutions and long term growth is currently an accepted stylized fact, which has good support in empirical literature with regard to both developing and developed countries. In the case of the second group, the quality of intuitions is crucial for keeping their abilities to face quick technological changes, which is a condition for maintaining their international competitiveness. The objective of the article is to analyse the quality of institutions in the European Union countries in the years 2000-2015 from the perspective of its influence on the speed of resources reallocation. The research touches upon the question of the abilities of the countries to take advantage of the knowledge based-economy potential. The concept of the institutional quality is rooted in the transaction costs theory framework. The phenomenon under evaluation is treated as a multiple-criteria problem. Thus, modified TOPSIS method based on entropy measure for objective weighting is applied here. The research shows institutional disparities between Northern and Southern European countries and confirms significant institutional reforms implemented in the Central European economies, which resulted in an improvement of their institutional quality with regard to knowledge-based economy requirements.

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Application of the Perkal method for assessing competitiveness of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe

Cited by 17 publications

References 17 publications

Is the Regional Divergence a Price for the International Convergence? The Case of the Visegrad Group

Is the Regional Divergence a Price for the International Convergence? The Case of the Visegrad Group

Entrepreneurial environment at regional level: the case of Polish path towards sustainable socio-economic development

Quality of Institutions in the European Union countries. Application of TOPSIS Based on Entropy Measure for Objective Weighting

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