Tendencies to EU Regional Convergence or Divergence by Efficiency Analysis

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tendencies to EU Regional Convergence or Divergence by Efficiency Analysis

Original language description

European Union faces increased competition from other continents, their nations, regions and cities. To respond to this challenge, the EU has agreed a strategies to promote economic growth and job creation, known as the Lisbon strategy for the period 2000-2010 and current for the period 2010-2020 the Strategy Europe 2020 which aims to make the EU the world’s leading knowledge-economy, based on the principle of sustainable development. But does the EU have sufficient endowment to achieve these objectives? Does the EU use its sources and opportunities effectively enough? Actions are needed at all levels of government - European, national and especially regional/local levels – if these ambitions are to be realised. Europe’s global competitiveness depends on a multiplicity of actions that can optimise the potentials within its regions because regions are increasingly becoming the drivers of the economy. All regions possess development opportunities – however, use these options enough and hence is at regional level tendency to convergence of competitiveness and its broaden aspects, or vice versa prevailing tendency to divergence? From this point of view, the main aim of the paper is to distinguish if the EU NUTS 2 regions have tendencies to convergence or divergence of competitiveness level by efficiency analysis with the help of Data Envelopment Analysis. DEA seems to be a convenient method for measuring regional efficiency because it is based on the Regional Competitiveness Index having dimension of driving forces of competitiveness and direct or indirect outcomes of a competitive society and economy. The analysis will be divided in growth period, crisis period and post-crisis period and thus, it will be possible the evaluate changes in tendencies to convergence or divergence across European regions.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0296" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0296: Research team for modelling of economic and financial processes at VSB-TU Ostrava</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Regional Science : 5th Central european conference proceedings: October 5-8, 2014, Košice, Slovak Republic

ISBN

978-80-553-2015-1

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e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

951-960

Publisher name

Technická univerzita v Košicích

Place of publication

Košice

Event location

Košice

Event date

Oct 5, 2014

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

000379207200092