KEY WORDS: Hungarian banking system, transitional financial markets, banking network, global-local dichotomy, and uneven regional development. ABSTRACT: The growing literature on regional finance suggests that credit allocation in regional banking system and the different national banking...

After eighteen months of intense preparation and work, in April 2003 the signing of MEMORANDUM OF COOPERATIVE RESEARCH between the NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION’S REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS ALLIED FORCES SOUTHERN EUROPE (AFSOUTH) and the DEPARTMENT FOR STUDIES ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND...

The interest in the analysis of job satisfaction has increased among economists. Indeed, reported levels of satisfaction have been seen as a good predictor of individual behaviour such as job turnover, productivity and absenteeism. Because of this, several studies have tried to identify the...

The rise of the Knowledge Economy has posed an extra and very significant problem for regional development agencies. Formed as the 'Industrial Age' was coming to an end, as instruments to help restructure old industrial regions, they now find the inward investment that once created new job...

International tourism is a major foreign exchange earner and a principal export for many low income countries as well as for developed ones. Nowadays many developing countries focus economic policies on promoting international tourism as a potential source of economic growth for the country...

Shift-share is a popular, relatively easy to apply, tool in spatial analysis. Upon its initial development and use in the 1970s the literature has shown that serious drawbacks of the shift-share technique should be noted (e.g., lack of theoretical basis, sensitivity to level of aggregation). But...

The simplifying assumption that the Central Business District is a point or featureless plain, is often made in urban economics. The main goal of this paper is to promote the relaxation of this hypothesis, with the support of empirical evidence, sustaining that the subsequent analysis can be...

The European experience of convergence reveals that the catching up of some peripheral countries takes place by an increase of their regional disparities. In a way there is a tension between growth and social cohesion. That is particularly worrying for the socio-economic balance of the European...