Regional Statistics
Regional Statistics is a peer-reviewed scientific periodical of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, published in English six times a year, and having a history of more than 50 years. Regional Statistics is written for those who wish to examine and understand reality primarily from a regional aspect. The periodical contains theoretical and methodological as well as analytical papers in the field of regional analysis. Papers are written by renowned professionals in regional statistics, regional development policy, regional research, economic and social geography, urban studies, as well as regional and settlement development planning. The journal welcomes studies, research and conference reports, book reviews, and discussion articles commenting on our former articles. The journal aims at becoming one of the main sources of regional analyses, and especially disseminating authentic data on Hungary and its regional trends to the international general public.
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Highlights:
• Companies from financial centers have better access to bank credit.
• The concentration of the banking system increases the disparities between the core and periphery.
• There is financial center bias in the equity markets in most European countries.
• Financial center bias is negatively linked to the computerization of financial markets.
work, the present paper provides evidence that spatial dependence appears significantly in the cost pass-through behaviour of firms. This suggests that, on the one hand, the detected symmetric cost pass-through may cover the properties of the competition. On the other hand, competition authorities should consider spatial dependencies when preparing court-case decisions to avoid verdicts arising from presumably spurious analysis results.
Highlights:
• Companies from financial centers have better access to bank credit.
• The concentration of the banking system increases the disparities between the core and periphery.
• There is financial center bias in the equity markets in most European countries.
• Financial center bias is negatively linked to the computerization of financial markets.
work, the present paper provides evidence that spatial dependence appears significantly in the cost pass-through behaviour of firms. This suggests that, on the one hand, the detected symmetric cost pass-through may cover the properties of the competition. On the other hand, competition authorities should consider spatial dependencies when preparing court-case decisions to avoid verdicts arising from presumably spurious analysis results.
population live in them. Despite this, we know relatively little about them and there is insufficient recognition of the role they have
as important providers of services, employment, housing, etc. Moreover, there is a tendency to view them as a homogenous category.
However, this paper argues what is required is a more disaggregated understanding of them in order to develop policy approaches
relevant to their situations and to genuinely include them in approaches that seek to enhance economic, social and territorial cohesion.
Drawing on research from the ESPON TOWN project, I will try to throw some light on the issues around small and medium-sized towns (SMSTs) and what to do about them if they are to continue to thrive.
product (GDP) affected by countrylevel financial crises. It proves that this measure has the desirable properties of fair and representative indices. It also adequately justifies the beliefs of some economists that financial crises have negative effects on economic performance.
explained partly by global processes and is, to some extent, the result of the unique Hungarian or Central European situation – that is, conditions of the Socialist era that were affected by contemporary European tendencies, but the system still had its own peculiarities – and of the regime change. The changes in the last four decades have significantly altered the retail sector in Budapest and the shopping habits of its inhabitants. Quality of life has also fundamentally changed, as have living standards. In addition to the spread of mobilisation, new satellite technologies have brought considerable changes in the field of trade as
well. Today, the question is not how close we are to the developed world but how fast we can gain access to suitable services and basic supplies and how these supply chains are organised. In our globalised world, a new form of harmony must be created between globality and locality.
traditional statistics at the regional level with those at the local area level enriches the way National Statistical Institutes provide information
t7o society. To provide such statistics at local level in a timely manner, the production of statistics needs to be modernised and based on various data sources, such as administrative registers and geospatial information. The United Nations has recognised the importance
of statistical-geospatial integration by creating an Expert Group under the UN Global Geospatial Information Management initiative. The European Statistical System has also paved the way for such an integration by funding the GEOSTAT projects.
For National Statistical Institutes looking to improve their capability to produce statistics at the local level, the Global Statistical Geospatial
Framework is a starting point that describes the requirements that need to be fulfilled. For guidance on how to start with a more bottom-up approach, the GEOSTAT 2 project has developed key actions aligned with the Generic Statistical Business Process Model. Statistics Sweden’s capability assessment might also provide some inspiration.
little attention has been paid to regional differences in Turkey. This study determines the electricity consumption indicators of Turkey based on the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS 2) regions during 2004–2011. To achieve this objective, panel data regression models, including socioeconomic indicators (gross value added, and
import and export amounts) were developed. The study represents the first instance of regional knowledge for electricity consumption using the panel data approach. The empirical results show that electricity consumption for the NUTS 2 regions can be modelled using fixed effects models with standard errors obtained by the White estimator. The study reveals that regional development leads to increases in electricity consumption. Furthermore, electricity demand has grown impressively
in line with regional economic developments in Turkey.
Urban metabolism indicators could play an important role in promoting the science and practice of urban metabolism for sustainability. This paper presents a systematic review of literature centred on defining sustainability-aimed urban metabolism indicators to improve the integration of urban metabolism and urban sustainability.
Furthermore, this paper concentrates on two indicator sets
(emergy synthesis and material flow analysis [MFA]), examining the relationship between these indicators and the three dimensions of
sustainability (environment, economy, and society) in the literature. The paper thus builds a bridge between urban metabolism and urban
sustainability in the hope that urban metabolism indicators can be used to measure and assess urban sustainability.
peripheralisation processes. In the study, the situations in Hungary and Czechia are compared to assess the validity of peripheralisation as a mutually reinforcing economic, social and demographic decline specifically affecting rural areas. First, the concentration of social problems such as unemployment and poverty is examined in economically weak rural areas. Second, the role of transport accessibility and remoteness is analysed. Third, the links between
socioeconomic peripheralisation and population development are explored. The results indicate basic structural similarities in the development of peripherality in Czechia and Hungary; however, the Hungarian case corresponds much more than the Czech case to the concept of peripheralisation defined as interrelated processes of economic problems, the accumulation of poverty and social exclusion, and population shrinkage that especially affect remote rural localities. The authors conclude by discussing the role of historically shaped settlement structures, current population compositions, and overall development at the country level.
In addition to some non-parametric tests, the study conducts alternative multivariate regressions to investigate the factors responsible for rising deprivation and the impact of policy. The statistical evidence is highly alarming and warrant urgent policy initiatives to reach the poor living in alienated regions.
hand, that have provided significant changes in the share of urban population. Suburbanisation has been investigated in details throughout the post-socialist region, while formal urbanisation could gain less attention, although in certain cases like in Hungary it has doubled the number of towns and cities within less than three decades. The
present study introduces the similarities and differences of the formal urbanisation process in Poland and Hungary, giving an evaluation
of the new-born towns. Their size and socioeconomic development are measured and contrasted on the basis of statistical indices, furthermore, their geographic location and functions in the settlement network are
compared, too.
The purpose of this study is to examine the information content on the labels of jarred baby foods available from different manufacturers in Hungary with the help of a questionnaire survey and to determine whether there is a difference between the purchase behaviour of mothers and the purchasing tendencies. In the view of the demographic problem of aging in Europe, it has become important to focus on the kind of foods consumed by the population. In this context, it is crucial to examine the first foods of babies which set up the foundation of their health for the rest of their life. The authors examine the nutrition labelling of jarred baby foods. The fields of economics, marketing, and consumer protection law are combined in this paper because they are key to examining consumer rights in the studied context.
are inherent in dwelling services. The study presents the estimation method of imputed rent in
national accounts. Without imputing this item,
gross domestic product (GDP) figures would be
skewed. The author examines the distribution of
imputed rent within the European Union (EU)
member states, and describes the housing conditions therein; she also identifies the theory behind the differential distribution of owneroccupied dwellings among member states and
analyses EU housing conditions. Using the
Esping-Andersen (1990) welfare state typology
and national accounts figures, EU member states
are clustered based on their imputed rents. Some
of the findings align with the Esping-Andersen
typology, while others do not. Convergence of
liberal, universalistic and conservative welfare
regimes is found with respect to housing tenure.
In the paper the Mediterranean welfare regime
constitutes a separate cluster, just as EU ‘newcomers’ (formerly socialist member states) that
showed a completely different character with
respect to housing tenure. The study presents
two methods (the stratification and the user-cost
methods) by which imputed rent was determined
for the EU member states. Macro- and microlevel aspects are considered when analysing
dwelling services of EU member states, depending on the scope and depth of the examination.
The two data sources are based on different
methodologies thus satisfy different research
purposes. Nonetheless, by leveraging these two
data sources, one can achieve deeper insights into EU housing conditions.
company establishment and liquidation statistics, industrial capacity report statistics, intellectual property statistics, national education statistics, and higher education statistics for this purpose.
The presented 16 variables are grouped into 3 categories: entrepreneurship, innovativeness, and human capital. As a ranking technique, the preference ranking organization method for enrichment
evaluation (PROMETHEE) is used. The 81 provinces of Turkey are ranked in terms of innovativeness, entrepreneurship and human capital performance, and their advantages are shown relative to one another. According to the results, Istanbul takes the first place followed by
Ankara, İzmir, Konya, and Kocaeli provinces, while Sinop, Iğdır, Tunceli, Ardahan, and Bayburt provinces perform the worst.
performed regression analyses include spatial interactions and spillover effects. As the applied regressions provide only an average picture about the studied phenomenon, the authors also present
the individual paths for each region. The results confirm the theory of
absolute convergence for both the economic and social convergence. Thus, regardless of any other explanatory factor, less developed regions tend to converge with the more developed ones. The traditional examinations and those that assess spatiality aspects
point to a faster annual convergence rate of well-being, so the two phenomena have different dynamics. This is partly supported by
the individual regional catch-up paths. Furthermore, it clearly complements the mathematical-statistical results. The novel results highlight the catching up of the ‘local dimension’ that puts the
regions along the two dimensions as ‘catch-up not complete’ and ‘catch-up complete’. The authors’ results suggest a non-parallel way of achieving social and economic cohesion.