Competitiveness of Hungarian Urban Micro-regions: Localization Agglomeration Economies and Regional Competitiveness Function

Regional Economies and Innovative Performance as the Source of Competitiveness and Agglomeration: a System Dynamics Representation

This article makes use of the system dynamics to argue that a number of theories about the performance of territories, developed in the past 20 years, are more complementary than alternative; to demonstrate this, a model of local economy coherent with these schools is designed and simulated. According to these theories, the ability to produce and use knowledge is at the centre of regional compe...

Competitiveness and Comparative Advantage in Hungarian Agriculture

We examine the competitiveness of Hungarian agriculture in relation to that of the EU, based on four indices of revealed comparative advantage, for the period 1992 to 1998. Consistency tests suggest that the indices are less satisfactory as cardinal and ordinal measures, but are useful in identifying whether or not Hungary has a comparative advantage in a particular product group. Despite signi...

The international competitiveness of Germany and other European economies : the assessment of the global competitiveness report

Competitiveness of Hungarian Agricultural Enterprises at Different Farm Types

Nine years has passed since the EU accession, thus, it is possible to make an objective evaluation about the impacts of the accession. Several reviews were made in this topic, but most of them made their assessment at macroeconomic level. This research focuses on the impacts of accession at farm level, using the data of the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) database. The main goals of thi...

Decision Making in Competitiveness of Regions

ESPON ATTREG project aims to investigate the motivation and behaviour of migration flows and daily commuting of students, tourists, aging population migrating to their secondary homes, students and other “part time” commuters – but especially behaviour of human resources in gross migrations and daily commuting – between regions. One of the key elements of the cohesion policy of the European Com...