HODNOCENÍ KONKURENCESCHOPNOSTI VYBRANÝCH REGIONŮ EVROPSKÉ UNIE

• Authors: Odehnal Jakub , Michálek Jaroslav

Title variants

EN

Assessment of competitiveness of chosen European Union regions

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Eighty five European NUTS 2 regions of 6 European countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are considered in the paper. Attention is focused on the assessment of their competitiveness. Data were obtained from the Statistical Office of the European Communities. Four indicators of competitiveness (i.e. quality of labour forces and innovations, labour market, economic activity and infrastructure) were determined by means of the factor analysis. The factor scores of indicated factors in the regions were divided into groups by means of multivariate classification techniques (cluster analysis and classification trees). The outcome of the analysis is the classification of groups of regions with similar competitiveness factors.

Keywords

EN

CLASSIFICATION TREES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPETITIVENESS; EUROPEAN UNION REGIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 113-131
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Odehnal Jakub

• Masarykova univerzita, Ekonomicko-správní fakulta, Lipová 41a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

author

Michálek Jaroslav

• Jakub Odehnal, Masarykova univerzita, Ekonomicko-spravni fakulta, Katedra ekonomie, Lipova 41a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09SKAAAA065918