IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ers/journl/vxxviiy2024i4p1238-1247.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Evolution of Determinants of Regional Development in Selected European Union Countries

Author

Listed:
  • Kamila Bednarz-Okrzynska

Abstract

Purpose: Regional development can be understood as a complex economic category describing a multidimensional, heterogeneous, and long-term process aimed at enhancing the existing state of a given region based on established criteria. The purpose of this article is to determine whether the significance of the determinants of such development remains constant over time and across different regions. Design/Methodology/Approach: Weights for the selected nine variables describing regional development were determined using the distance minimization method. The study was conducted on 158 regions across eight European Union countries, using data from 2010 and 2023. Findings: Beyond the challenge of selecting variables that characterize regional development, it is also essential to ascertain the significance of individual indicators by assigning them specific weights. In the literature, there is often a tacit assumption that all selected diagnostic variables are assigned equal weight. However, such an approach overlooks the structure of the object, data quality, and so on. Practical Implications: Precisely determining weight values that reflect the importance of various variables in the context of regional development can be valuable in identifying priority areas to be considered in a range of socio-economic decision making processes. Originality/Value: This article presents the potential application of distance-minimization methods to weigh the significance of factors determining regional development.

Suggested Citation

  • Kamila Bednarz-Okrzynska, 2024. "Evolution of Determinants of Regional Development in Selected European Union Countries," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(4), pages 1238-1247.
    • Handle: RePEc:ers:journl:v:xxvii:y:2024:i:4:p:1238-1247
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ersj.eu/journal/3567/download
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Lewis Dijkstra & Hugo Poelman & Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, 2020. "The geography of EU discontent," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(6), pages 737-753, June.
    2. Antonios Adamopoulos & Eleftherios I. Thalassinos, 2020. "Tourism Development and Economic Growth: A Comparative Study for the G-6 Leaders," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(1), pages 368-380.
    3. Maria Johann, 2005. "Poziom życia ludności Polski i krajów Unii Europejskiej," Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics, issue 11-12, pages 49-64.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Camilla Lenzi & Giovanni Perucca, 2021. "Not too close, not too far: Urbanisation and life satisfaction along the urban hierarchy," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(13), pages 2742-2757, October.
    2. Niembro, Andrés & Calá, Carla Daniela, 2024. "Regional structural change in Argentina (1996-2019): Concepts, measurements and unequal trajectories over the business cycle," Nülan. Deposited Documents 4106, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Centro de Documentación.
    3. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose & Neil Lee & Cornelius Lipp, 2021. "Golfing with Trump. Social capital, decline, inequality, and the rise of populism in the US," Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 14(3), pages 457-481.
    4. Connor, Dylan Shane & Berg, Aleksander K & Kemeny, Tom & Kedron, Peter, 2023. "Who gets left behind by left behind places?," SocArXiv nkydt_v1, Center for Open Science.
    5. Glückler Johannes & Wójcik Dariusz, 2023. "Seven Years of Brexit: Economic Geographies of Regional De- and Recoupling," ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, De Gruyter, vol. 67(2-3), pages 67-75, August.
    6. Razvan Tiberiu Radu & Alina C. Radu, 2024. "Tourism Transformed: How Netflix’s „Wednesday” Enhanced Destination Marketing in Busteni, Romania," Economics and Applied Informatics, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, issue 3, pages 325-333.
    7. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose & Javier Terrero-Davila & Neil Lee, 2023. "Left-Behind vs. Unequal Places: Interpersonal Inequality, Economic Decline, and the Rise of Populism in the US and Europe," LIS Working papers 859, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
    8. McNeil, Andrew & Luca, Davide & Lee, Neil, 2023. "The long shadow of local decline: Birthplace economic adversity and long-term individual outcomes in the UK," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 136(C).
    9. Lars Mewes & Leonie Tuitjer & Peter Dirksmeier, 2024. "Exploring the variances of climate change opinions in Germany at a fine-grained local scale," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-14, December.
    10. Annie Tubadji & Thomas Colwill & Don Webber, 2021. "Voting with your feet or voting for Brexit: The tale of those stuck behind," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 13(2), pages 247-277, April.
    11. Panagiotis Artelaris, 2021. "Regional economic growth and inequality in Greece," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 13(1), pages 141-158, February.
    12. Daniel Szostak, 2021. "Creation and Promotion of Branded Tourism Products – Analysis of Selected Issues," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(4 - Part ), pages 148-154.
    13. Richard Grieveson & Michael Landesmann & Olga Pindyuk & Maryna Tverdostup, 2024. "Ukraine’s reconstruction in the context of EU accession," Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft - WuG, Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien, Abteilung Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Statistik, vol. 50(2), pages 45-86.
    14. Kenny, Michael & Luca, Davide, 2021. "The urban-rural polarisation of political disenchantment: an investigation of social and political attitudes in 30 European countries," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 112683, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    15. Miriam Fritzsche, 2024. "De-industrialization, local joblessness and the male-female employment gap," Berlin School of Economics Discussion Papers 0040, Berlin School of Economics.
    16. Agnieszka Sawinska & Agnieszka Smalec, 2023. "Film Tourism in the Promotion of a Touristic Area," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(4), pages 513-522.
    17. Daria Denti, 2022. "Looking ahead in anger: The effects of foreign migration on youth resentment in England," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 62(2), pages 578-603, March.
    18. Robert Gold, 2021. "Wie kann Wirtschaftspolitik zur Eindämmung des Populismus beitragen?," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 101(7), pages 500-504, July.
    19. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose & Lewis Dijkstra & Hugo Poelman, 2024. "The Geography of EU Discontent and the Regional Development Trap," Economic Geography, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 100(3), pages 213-245, May.
    20. Ganau, Roberto & Kilroy, Austin, 2023. "Detecting economic growth pathways in the EU’s lagging regions," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 115162, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Regional development; weighting of diagnostic variables; determinants of regional development.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • C1 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
    • Q4 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy
    • F59 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - Other

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ers:journl:v:xxvii:y:2024:i:4:p:1238-1247. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Marios Agiomavritis (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://ersj.eu/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.