Effect of Structural Funds on Housing Market Sustainability Development—Correlation, Regression and Wavelet Coherence Analysis

Łukasz Mach,Karina Bedrunka,Marzena Szewczuk-Stępień,Anna Kuczuk

doi:10.3390/risks9100182

Abstract

Effective acquisition of funds, including European Union (EU) funds, designated for example, creating economic and social processes, may have a real impact on the elimination of the negative outcomes of the current position of the EU on the global scale. The aim of the research is to indicate the impact of spending funds from the Regional Operational Program of the Opolskie Voivodeship 2014–2020 (ROP OV) on a key macroeconomic area of the economy, i.e., the housing development sector in the region. The practical aim is to formulate recommendations and solutions that can offer guidelines for more effective spending of EU funds and their effect on the macroeconomic dimensions of the economy. The article proposes an innovative approach to linking EU payments in the region with the real estate market. The results of the research and the analyses made on this basis showed a positive impact of the payments made from the ROP OV on selected macroeconomic indicators, i.e., the number of permits issued for the construction of new apartments and the number of currently implemented housing investments. The obtained results should be used in the decision-making process at the level of regional and national authorities responsible for the payment of EU funds. In this article, prior to the research process, a literature review was made. It covered various aspects of the evolution and development of research in the area of regional development. The research process was based on innovative methods of time variability analysis, correlation between the investigated determinants and coherence analysis for the studied dimensions. Data on payments from the ROP OV concern the years 2015–2020.

Highlights

We are facing the deterioration of the position of the European Union (EU) as the dominant world economy (Radulescu et al 2018) as well as socio-economic situations in it due to the demographic situation on the global scale (Chłoń-Domińczak et al 2014)
Conclusions and payments under the ROP OV, a linear correlation can be noted for semi-annual cycles in the period from 2016 to 2018 and for the year 2019
Study years 2016–2020 in the investigated example we have to do with a linear correlation for the Theand results of the study suggest the following conclusions: annual

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Introduction

We are facing the deterioration of the position of the EU as the dominant world economy (Radulescu et al 2018) as well as socio-economic situations in it due to the demographic situation on the global scale (Chłoń-Domińczak et al 2014). There are other studies in this area, such as one by Bedrunka and Malik (2012), which emphasize that the EU encourages the application of a new approach to programming activities, the primary goal of which is to strengthen its competitiveness. The approach to contemporary development policy aimed at increasing the EU’s global position requires the implementation of multi-faceted, comprehensive, and simultaneous actions aimed at reviving lost population potential and counteracting further adverse changes. It is necessary for the concentration of intervention to adequately include diagnosis for areas of development that will result in the macroeconomic development of the EU as a whole, its individual member states and regions

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