Implications of European Union Structural Assistance to New Member States on Regional Disparities: The Question of Absorption Capacity

Constantin, Daniela-Luminiţa; Goschin, Zizi; Dragan, Gabriela

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“…Their intention was to join the EU and "catch up" with the developed EU member states. The establishment of market-oriented economies in the early 1990s and the institutional, economic, and social linkages of these countries to the developed EU members were almost most important for their economic growth and development (Savić, Drvenkar & Drezgić, 2023;Drvenkar, Marošević & Unukić, 2023;Chamusca, Marques, Moreno Pires & Teles, 2022;Blažek, & Kveton, 2022;Casula, 2020;Stough, 2019;Lakshmann & Button, 2009in: Capello & Nijkamp, 2019Voigt, 2019;Constantin, Goschin & Dragan, 2011;Berend, 2011). Also, geographical location of underdeveloped regions should not be ignored (Rodríguez-Pose & Wilkie 2019), because often underdeveloped regions are located far from developed regions, i.e., on the periphery of the home country (Nilsen, Grillitsch & Hauge (2023).…”

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Territory, Networking and Regional Policies: Regional Development Agencies of the Post-Transition Eu Member States

Drvenkar,

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Unukić

2024

DIEM Dubrovnik International Economic Meeting

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RDAs - regional development agencies have a long development path in Europe since the early 1960s until today. RDAs are directed to the regions of the countries that implement it, but it also applies to the national level as well as to the level of the EU (which comes to the fore with the country's accession to full membership). In addition to the significant differences in the level of development of the regions of the EU Member States, there are also significant differences in the development of the regions of 11 post-transition EU Member States (Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Croatia). Because they all belonged to the former "socialist bloc of countries" and broke their state alliances with the former states in the early 1990s, as well as because they did not have the same historical circumstances or the same timing for joining the EU, all this had and still has an important role on the uneven development of their regions. But, RDAs do not play the same role and importance in all post-transition countries, which reflects the specificity of their regional development management systems and makes it necessary to examine the role and importance of RDAs' work. This paper will analyze: 1) the role and development of RDAs in post-transition EU member states, and 2) the institutional framework of RDAs with an attempt to find innovative transformations of the role of RDAs that respect the framework of EU regional policies.

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Territory, Networking and Regional Policies: Regional Development Agencies of the Post-Transition Eu Member States

Drvenkar,

Cota,

Unukić

2024

DIEM Dubrovnik International Economic Meeting

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“…Alongside FDIs, domestic public and private investment is considered the best instrument for countering the negative effects of economic crisis and promoting economic recovery and growth. In Romania's case, better absorption of EU funds could provide important additional resources for investments (Constantin, Goschin, & Drăgan, 2010; Zaman & Geamănu, 2010).…”

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What makes new firms resilient? A spatial analysis for Romania

Goschin

2020

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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Resilient regions seem to be able to retain a higher level of entrepreneurial activity in times of crisis, when the capacity of new firms to survive and thrive is severely put to test. Aiming to find which regional characteristics sustain entrepreneurship resilience, this paper explores the impact of the recent economic and financial crisis on the survival of new firms, using Romania as an exponent of postcommunist countries in Central and Eastern Europe. After testing a wide range of potential explicative factors, we found that the most consequential ones are the foreign direct investments, population growth and the agglomeration of active firms. A custom-made economic crisis variable differentiated the recession time span for each county, according to its individual response to crisis, and allowed us to find how the economic crisis changes the spatial influence of the variables. The spatial panel framework used for this analysis showed that location matters for the survival of newly born firms.

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Regional Inequalities and Sigma Divergence in Romania

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2014

Procedia Economics and Finance

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Implications of European Union Structural Assistance to New Member States on Regional Disparities: The Question of Absorption Capacity

Cited by 9 publications

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Territory, Networking and Regional Policies: Regional Development Agencies of the Post-Transition Eu Member States

Territory, Networking and Regional Policies: Regional Development Agencies of the Post-Transition Eu Member States

What makes new firms resilient? A spatial analysis for Romania

Regional Inequalities and Sigma Divergence in Romania

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