Local Development and Policies of Protectionism
| Název práce v češtině: | Regionální rozvoj a politiky protekcionismu |
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| Název v anglickém jazyce: | Local Development and Policies of Protectionism |
| Klíčová slova: | Regiony, rozvoj, politiky rozvoje, ochrana |
| Klíčová slova anglicky: | Regions; development; policies; protection |
| Akademický rok vypsání: | 2013/2014 |
| Typ práce: | diplomová práce |
| Jazyk práce: | angličtina |
| Ústav: | Institut ekonomických studií (23-IES) |
| Vedoucí / školitel: | doc. Ing. Vladimír Benáček, CSc. |
| Řešitel: | skrytý - zadáno vedoucím/školitelem |
| Datum přihlášení: | 05.02.2014 |
| Datum zadání: | 05.02.2014 |
| Datum a čas obhajoby: | 23.09.2015 00:00 |
| Místo konání obhajoby: | IES |
| Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: | 15.05.2015 |
| Datum proběhlé obhajoby: | 23.09.2015 |
| Oponenti: | Ing. Tomáš Želinský, Ph.D. |
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| Zásady pro vypracování |
| Pečlivě. |
| Seznam odborné literatury |
| Boschma, R., K. Frenken (2006). Why is economic geography not an evolutionary science? Towards an evolutionary economic geography. In: Journal of Economic Geography, 6(3): 273-302.
Boschma, R., R. Martin (eds.) (2010).The handbook of evolutionary economic geography. Cheltenham, GB : Edward Elgar. Boschma, R., A. T. Wal (2008). Applying social network analysis in economic geography: framing some key analytic issues. The Annals of Regional Science, 43(3): 739-756. FoodIMA Project, Deliverable 6.1. A Theoretical Framework for the Construction of a Complete Regional I-O Model. GR: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Frenken, K. (ed.) (2007). Applied evolutionary economics and economic geography. Cheltenham, GB : Edward Elgar. Jensen, R. C., T. D. Mandeville and N. D. Karunaratne (1979). Regional Economic Planning: Generation of Regional Input-Output Analysis. London: Croom Helm. Martin, R. (2009). Rethinking Regional Path Dependence: Beyond Lock-in to Evolution. Utrecht, NL : PEEG #09.10 Sacks, J. (2002). The Money Trail. London, GB: New Economics Foundation and The Countryside Agency. Semerák V., K. Zigic, E. Loizou, A. Golemanova-Kuharova (2010). Regional Input-Output Analysis: Application on Rural Regions in Germany, the Czech Republic and Greece. Paper prepared for presentation at the 118th seminar of the EAAE. Ljubljana, SVN : EAAE. Vousden, N. (1990). The economics of trade protection. US: Cambridge University Press. |
| Předběžná náplň práce |
| This work should describe the emerging techniques of protectionism from the perspective of economic regions, draw up the policy recommendations and for this purpose examine the significance of 1) intra-regional trade, 2) financial flows from outside and 3) institutional structures and networks for the regional economic development.
Hypotheses: 1. The effect of local trade. The regions with strong and balanced intra-regional trade are better performing, while flowing-out of money leads to the lock-in effects due to cyclical “macroeconomic” disequilibria. 2. The effect of FDI. There is no possibility to discover the financial flows from one region to another – the only way is to analyze the foreign investments, while they are statistically recorded. The hypothesis is that the region should prefer the policies supporting small local firms (subject to local financing) than big financial flows from outside (private or public). 3. The Czech regional trade based on inter-industrial specialization is not allowing some regions to catch up with the central Bohemian cluster based on exports of high-paid bureaucratic services (public and private) since its spillovers cannot be absorbed in peripheries. Methodology: 1. Regional Input-Output tables using the non-survey regionalization methodology, such as GRIT approach (Jensen et al., 1979), described in Foodima project Deliverable 6.1 and applied for instance in Semerák et al., 2010. Comparison of outputs of I-O analysis and Money-multiplier surveys of environmental economists (Sacks, 2002). 2. Regression analysis in favor of analyzing the share of investments from abroad (FDI) on the prosperity of the regions. 3. Reconstruction of the regional balance of payments (if possible due to the availability of data) and regional price-level indices. Expected Contribution: In the first place there is a lack of works concerning with geographical issues in the Czech economic literature. This work should connect most recent attitudes of economic theory (such as evolutionary approach or theory of networks) with actual challenges of regional development in the Czech Republic. Questions of protectionism in the favor of regional or rather generally local development (in current European space is even small country with fixed exchange rate to Euro becoming a sort of a region) are likely to emerge in the near future – this work can put some perspective how to deal with them, offer policy recommendations on both regional and national level. From the methodological point of view the main contribution could be in summarizing the possibilities of solving the problem of poor availability of regional data and hence making the analysis at the regional level using the transformations of instruments and data from the national level. Outline: 1. Literature review a. Regional literature, geographical aspects b. Recent topics in theory of protectionism c. Methodological background, FDI literature, Input-Output literature 2. Theoretical part a. Geographical view on economy, evolutionary economic geography and theory of networks b. Forms of protectionism on the regional level in the Central-European conditions c. Identification of Czech geographical specifics and challenges 3. Empirical part a. Reconstruction of available regional instruments, balance of payments, regional price-levels b. Input-Output analysis c. FDI analysis 4. Conclusions and policy recommendations |
| Předběžná náplň práce v anglickém jazyce |
| This work should describe the emerging techniques of protectionism from the perspective of economic regions, draw up the policy recommendations and for this purpose examine the significance of 1) intra-regional trade, 2) financial flows from outside and 3) institutional structures and networks for the regional economic development.
Hypotheses: 1. The effect of local trade. The regions with strong and balanced intra-regional trade are better performing, while flowing-out of money leads to the lock-in effects due to cyclical “macroeconomic” disequilibria. 2. The effect of FDI. There is no possibility to discover the financial flows from one region to another – the only way is to analyze the foreign investments, while they are statistically recorded. The hypothesis is that the region should prefer the policies supporting small local firms (subject to local financing) than big financial flows from outside (private or public). 3. The Czech regional trade based on inter-industrial specialization is not allowing some regions to catch up with the central Bohemian cluster based on exports of high-paid bureaucratic services (public and private) since its spillovers cannot be absorbed in peripheries. Methodology: 1. Regional Input-Output tables using the non-survey regionalization methodology, such as GRIT approach (Jensen et al., 1979), described in Foodima project Deliverable 6.1 and applied for instance in Semerák et al., 2010. Comparison of outputs of I-O analysis and Money-multiplier surveys of environmental economists (Sacks, 2002). 2. Regression analysis in favor of analyzing the share of investments from abroad (FDI) on the prosperity of the regions. 3. Reconstruction of the regional balance of payments (if possible due to the availability of data) and regional price-level indices. Expected Contribution: In the first place there is a lack of works concerning with geographical issues in the Czech economic literature. This work should connect most recent attitudes of economic theory (such as evolutionary approach or theory of networks) with actual challenges of regional development in the Czech Republic. Questions of protectionism in the favor of regional or rather generally local development (in current European space is even small country with fixed exchange rate to Euro becoming a sort of a region) are likely to emerge in the near future – this work can put some perspective how to deal with them, offer policy recommendations on both regional and national level. From the methodological point of view the main contribution could be in summarizing the possibilities of solving the problem of poor availability of regional data and hence making the analysis at the regional level using the transformations of instruments and data from the national level. Outline: 1. Literature review a. Regional literature, geographical aspects b. Recent topics in theory of protectionism c. Methodological background, FDI literature, Input-Output literature 2. Theoretical part a. Geographical view on economy, evolutionary economic geography and theory of networks b. Forms of protectionism on the regional level in the Central-European conditions c. Identification of Czech geographical specifics and challenges 3. Empirical part a. Reconstruction of available regional instruments, balance of payments, regional price-levels b. Input-Output analysis c. FDI analysis 4. Conclusions and policy recommendations |