Marcell Kupi (p), Ferenc Bakó

Peter Karpestam

There has been much debate as to which measure is best when studying economic development of a nation. In our study economic development is represented by GDP. Our longitudinal study compares annual GDP in regressions with seven explanatory variables (interest rate, inflation, unemployment, export, general government debt, foreign direct investment and government expenditure). These variables have more variance contribution of themselves as compare to other variables in system. The data has been taken from World Bank database. The data has been collected for a period of 17 years from 2000 to 2017. This research is limited to only a few selected counties in Europe, namely Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Hungary.

Peter Palm (p), Ola Jingryd (p)

Beatrice Balivet

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Magnus Andersson, Rosalia Camporeale (p) , Anders Wretstrand

Helena Bohman

Title: Mobility among older adults: Analysis of the Swedish region of Skåne

Society across the globe is rapidly ageing. Research on ageing and mobility suggests better synergies can exist between older people and the built environment. The ageing-in-place policy desire to keep older people in their own homes for as long as possible will place increased demands on the transport system as a key facilitator for access. The main goal of this study is therefore to study the distribution over the territory of older adults and their mobility patterns. The study area is the region of Skåne in the southern part of Sweden. Register-based longitudinal socio-demographic data such as income, education, place of residence from the Longitudinal integration database for health insurance and labour market studies (LISA) of individuals (older than 65 years old), sf associated with the outcomes of previous travel surveys conducted in the region (accessibility and actual usage of the different travel modes), is expected to outline the indicative level of individual quality of life and mobility satisfaction.
The methods used in the paper will be based on quantitative methods applying spatial analysis. For the data collected within the study exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) is of particularly importance. ESDA is a collection of techniques to describe and visualize spatial distributions, identify atypical locations or spatial outliers, discover patterns of spatial association, clusters or hot spots, and suggest spatial regimes or other forms of spatial heterogeneity. ESDA can be used to map the location of older adults. As a second step spatial modeling techniques, such as regression analysis can also be implemented to explicitly incorporate the mechanisms underlying the spatial patterns found when mapping the older adults in Skåne.

Muriel Maillefert (p), Catherine Mercier-Suissa (p), Céline Rivat

Peter Palm

A review of the literature focusing on the multiple territorial pull factors of EAZs shows that attractiveness is a multifaceted concept which can be measured through various means. While economic attractiveness puts the focus on businesses, the concept of residential attractiveness focuses on the inhabitants of a given geographic zone. In both cases, users of the zone – including business executives, employees, and residents – are receptive to the specific pull factors of the zone. Some factors may be user-specific. For instance, businesses may decide to migrate based on land costs, corporate tax regimes, and whether there is local demand for their production, while residents will pay particular attention to real estate prices, as well as to the quality of life and of infrastructure. However, all zone users will be receptive to new pull factors related to sustainable development.

Today, an increasing number of EAZs welcome a mix of individuals, companies, and their employees. To attract as diverse a population as possible, the developers of EAZs invest to create new co-working and co-living spaces, both cultural and commercial. The increased focus on sustainable development is an opportunity for local stakeholders to re-think territorial development in a collaborative way.

We conducted a study of five EAZs east of Lyon. Albeit in close geographic proximity, these zones are sufficiently different from one another to allow us to derive useful comparisons of their various characteristics. Our comparative study enabled us to assess these zones based on the same criterias related to their economic and social attractiveness. This study will serve as a useful decision-making tool to support local authorities and developers of EAZs.

Elena Cigu (p), Mihaela Onofrei

Peter Håkansson

The governments of each member country of the European Union have identified different ways to design fiscal policies and to implement fiscal decentralization process. The economic theory suggests different ways through which the devolution of powers/competences and resources to subnational governments could be linked to economic growth. The goal of this paper is twofold, theoretical and empirical. Firstly, at theoretical level, we intend to highlight the state of knowledge on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth. Secondly, by reporting to the results of previous studies, we intend to develop an econometric model for evaluating the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth and apply it for the case of the CEE-11 countries over the period of time 2000-2015. By choosing different indicators of fiscal decentralization, we find mixed evidence relating the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth, most of them leading to a raise of economic growth. . In our opinion this paper can be considered a useful viewpoint in understanding the complexity of fiscal decentralization and the study of inequalities, being an addition to the existing literature on the field.