scholarly journals What Can Be Learned from Spatial Economics?

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stef Proost ◽  
Jacques-François Thisse
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Spatial Economics ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Centrifugal Forces ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Distribution Of Wealth ◽  
Urban Level ◽  
Centripetal Forces

Spatial economics aims to explain why there are peaks and troughs in the spatial distribution of wealth and people, from the international and regional to the urban and local. The main task is to identify the microeconomic underpinnings of centripetal forces, which lead to the concentration of economic activities, and centrifugal forces, which bring about the dispersion of economic activities at the regional and urban levels. Transportation matters at both scales, but in a different way. The emphasis is on the interregional flows of goods and passenger trips at the regional level and on individual commuting at the urban level. ( JEL F12, L13, R12, R23, R30, R40)

scholarly journals The Blue Smart Specialization Challenges Towards the

2021 ◽  
pp. 281-294
Author(s):  
Milen Baltov
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Blue Economy ◽  
Blue Growth ◽  
Urban Level ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Smart Specialization

AbstractThe ‘blue economy’ embraces more than five million jobs and the gross added value in the second decade of this century is surpassing EUR half a trillion a year. Now when this growth even accelerates in many more sub-sectors the process goes driven in two ways. On one side, a wave of smart specialization strategies at regional and urban level is under way, in many cases incorporating the restorative economy elements. On the other side, changes just happened even without the respective strategies in the blue economy structure and challenge the established sectors. The purpose of this chapter of the book is to identify the main challenges of the smart specialization strategies at urban and regional level incorporating the blue growth elements that are met towards the restorative economy frames. The methods used are a literature and key policy documents review and some secondary data analysis over performed by the European Commission contractor investigation with reference to a project performed in the sector. As a conclusion the recommendation for sectoral specialization of the coastal areas and its cities’ economy in accordance with the innovative potential for blue growth was outlined, with the understanding it might be fragile due to the unsustainable economic activities in the seas.

scholarly journals Transformation of Criteria for the Efficiency of Economic Activities of Countries in the Context of the Modern Model of Globalization

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Makarova ◽  
Vasilii Rudyakov
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Location ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
National Economies

Although macroeconomics as an independent economic science emerged only in the twen­tieth century, the first steps in developing the macroeconomic aspect of efficiency were taken several centuries earlier — beginning from the 16th — 17th centuries — at the pre-industrial stage of development of society. Due to the underdevelopment of the production sphere, the search for sources of growth in the efficiency of national economies at that time was mainly carried out from the most general economic positions — as an integral part of solving the main task of the economics of those eras — searching for ways and means of increasing the wealth of nations. At the same time, naturally, among the first were the climatic and foreign economic factors of increasing the efficiency of national economies. For example, factors related to identifying the advantages of various countries in a geographic location and the ability to solve their economic problems by using the most advantageous options for organizing and conducting foreign economic and trade relations. The transition of developed countries to new stages of development — industrial and postindustrial, as well as the selection by John M. Keynes of the new direction of economic research — macroeconomics, historically leads both to a deepening of the meaning of the very category of “macroeconomic efficiency” and to more detailed studies of factors affecting it.

scholarly journals Educational and qualificational disproportions of Ukraine's regional labor market

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Blyzniuk ◽  
Yaryna Yuryk
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Comparative Characteristic ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Regional Labor Market ◽  
Regional Labor

The article deals with educational and qualificational features and disproportions of the regional labor market. The authors reveal and summarize the features of structural and dynamic characteristics of the labor market in an industrial region (Zaporizhzhya region), and professional and sectoral structure of the employed and unemployed population. The disproportionality between regional distribution of vocational education and demand for skilled labor is considered in the context of the uneven distribution of employees by professions and economic activities, which led to distortions in the quantitative and qualitative structure of the labor market and further aggravated the mismatch between the level of labor's skills and the needs of employers at the regional level. The paper substantiates the conclusion about the autonomy of the trajectories of vocational education development in the region and the labor market of worker professions, which shows up in the excessive qualification of the employed population in the region. Based on the results of analytical calculations, the authors identified and fully characterized the professional "core" of the Zaporizhzhya region, which covers no less than 80% of all employed in the worker professions and identified, in its structure, the most wide spread professions in the region. The comparative characteristic of the professional "core" with the need of employers and their salary offers allowed to identify the bottlenecks of the occupational structure of employment in the region. Since the training of workers in accordance with the policy of decentralization is a prerogative of local authorities, it is at the regional level that workers should be trained to ensure the replenishment of a professional "core". The authors prove that the system of worker training in Zaporizhzhya region is not able to bring the training of skilled workers in line with the needs of the labor market. It is the social dialogue with all stakeholders in the region that acquires particular importance for the modernization of the content of educational policy.

scholarly journals Keterkaitan Efisiensi Kredit Usaha Rakyat (KUR) dengan Topografi Wilayah di Kabupaten Pati, Provinsi Jawa Tengah

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-130
Author(s):  
Farida Farida ◽  
Nur Wahyuni ◽  
Ida Zulfida
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Exogenous Factors ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Exogenous factors such as topography of the region are often overlooked in determining the pattern of economic activity. In fact, the geographical surface contributes to the spatial distribution of varied economic activities. The purpose of this study was to see the linkage between the efficiency of the disbursement of People’s Business Credit (KUR) program and the topography of the region in Pati Regency-Central Java. The research method is descriptive qualitative by overlaying the efficiency level of 35 KUR channeling banks with polygon maps of each subdistrict in Pati regency. Data on the efficiency level of unit banks are secondary data of each bank unit which has been calculated with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) application. Is it dicovered that unit banks are very inefficient at topographies bordered with arid limestone mountains or along rivers that often overflows. As a result, economic activity is not optimal and the disbursement of KUR is not efficient at the area. On the contrary, at topographies in the lowlands, the trade, agriculture, and fisheries sectors are advanced, population is large,  economic activities are fast, thus encourage efficient credit disbursement.

Spatial Distribution of the Informal Economy. A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation

2011 ◽  
pp. 63-80
Author(s):  
Lucian Liviu Albu ◽  
Ion Ghizdeanu ◽  
Cristian Stanica
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Tax Rate ◽  
Main Determinants

Drawing on the existing theory, in this paper we analytically evaluate the limitvalues of certain important parameters involved in models used to estimate the size of the informal economy and to explain its workings. We develop a model which combines the level of income and the tax rate as the main determinants of the informal economy. On the basis of this model, we perform simulations using the available data. The second goal of the study is to extend investigation to regional level and, finally, to obtain a map reflecting the spatial distribution of the informal economy in Romania.

scholarly journals Method for Monitoring of Managing the Modernization of Regional Economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 04004
Author(s):  
T. Krasnova ◽  
T. Plotnikova ◽  
A. Pozdnyakov ◽  
A. Vilgelm
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Market Potential ◽  
New Economic Geography ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Data Set ◽  
New Approach

This paper proposes a new approach for monitoring of managing the modernisation of regional economic. The model built on proposed methodology will make it possible to smooth out the influence of non-urban areas on the unevenness of economic activity in spatial development. This paper has two goals. The first is to provide a new compilation of data on spatial distribution of economic activity at the sub-regional level. This data set allows us to monitoring of different indicators within macroregions such as Siberia. The second goal is to construct an instrument that helps to overcome the endogeneity problem using new economic geography hypothesis about the mechanisms of distribution of economic activity. Section 2 describes the data and method that we have proposed, discusses the construction of the Theil indexes using these data at the sub-federal and the sub-regional level. Section 3 presents the correlations between spatial distribution of economic activity and local market potential, discusses the robustness of the results; and the last section concludes.

The problem of letting go: The ‘Big Society’, accountable governance and ‘the curse of the decentralizing minister’

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 652-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Flinders ◽  
David S. Moon
Keyword(s):  
Political Accountability ◽  
Centrifugal Forces ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Big Society ◽  
Public Expectation ◽  
Letting Go ◽  
Centripetal Forces

While clear lines of accountability are normally considered a sine qua non of any modern democracy, this article argues that too much accountability can be as problematic as too little. Through the application of a number of analytical ‘hooks’ drawn from the accountability studies literature, it argues that if the coalition government’s rhetorical commitment to a shift from a ‘Big State’ to a ‘Big Society’ is implemented, it may well flounder due to its inability to reconcile the centrifugal forces of devolution and localism with the centripetal forces of political accountability and public expectation. Indeed, without a more aggressive, sophisticated and indeed honest approach to accountability, the ‘Big Society’ is unwittingly likely to forge an even ‘Bigger State’.

Comparative assessment of the dynamics of investment efficiency in fixed capital at the level of federal districts of Russia

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-170
Author(s):  
Барбашова ◽  
Ekaterina Barbashova ◽  
Лясковская ◽  
Olga Lyaskovskaya ◽  
Абрамова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Fixed Capital ◽  
Investment Efficiency ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Central Federal District ◽  
Federal Districts

The article proposes an approach to the determination of investment efficiency at the regional level and provides a comparative assessment of investment efficiency in different economic activities.The assessment of investment efficiency is preceded by the analysis of GRP structures and investments in the economy of the Central Federal District in the context of foreign trade, which allows to identify and then to give a comparative assessment of investment efficiency in fixed capital in the two leading types of economic activities on the share of GRP in the Central Federal District in 2005 and 2012: trade and processing production.The instruments for analysis became a package of statistical programs SPSS Statistics 22.

The Principle of Solidarity in the Civil Law of Russia

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Дмитрий Богданов ◽  
Dmitriy Bogdanov ◽  
Евгений Богданов ◽  
Evgeniy Bogdanov ◽  
Елена Богданова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Social System ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Atomic Unit ◽  
Centrifugal Forces ◽  
Balance Of Interests ◽  
Entire Society ◽  
Centripetal Forces

The present work reveals the content of the principle of solidarity in civil relations. The principle of solidarity reflects interests of society and an individual as a single social system that allows one to form relationships between the members of society based on solidarity and not on individualism, when pursuing profit making and own interests the interests of both society and the contract partners are ignored. In case there are individualism and selfishness in society centrifugal forces operate, what pulls apart society into some (atomic) unit. But if there are the interests of solidarity then centripetal forces operate, that unites society, integrates the interests of the members of society and of the entire society. It allows reaching not only the balance of interests between the partners in the agreement, but also equilibrium and stability in society. Therefore, the principle of solidarity is of particular importance for the formation process of civil society.

scholarly journals Brotherhood dalam Dimensi Sistem Ekonomi Islam

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 499
Author(s):  
Fahrur Ulum
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Distribution Of Wealth ◽  
Economic Man ◽  
Market Economic ◽  
Islamic Economic ◽  
Set Up

This article discusses the issue of brotherhood in Islamic economic system. The goal of Islamic economics is to create advantages (falâh}) for all economic man. To achieve this goal, Muslim economists have agreed to set up the philosophical pillars of Islamic economic system which consists of tawhîd, ‘ibâdah, khilâfah, and ukhuwwah. One of the important challenges to deal with is how to place the idea of brotherhood as a pillar of Islamic economic system that is applicable in economic activities which then lead to equal advantages. Muslim economists argue that Islamic economic system has led economic man to possess altruistic personality. This is not only related to the problem of consumption but also to that of production. In addition, the distribution of wealth specific in Islamic economic system has resulted in brotherhood. The spirit of brotherhood has inspired the effort of distributing wealth economically and non-economically towards shared advantages. Specific wealth distribution in Islamic economics is by placing human as economic being and social being alike. Therefore, brotherhood is implemented in market and non-market economic activities. The implementation of brotherhood is not only in the form of cooperative but more than that is to be oriented to efforts of empowering economic man.

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