Regional Economy Integration Research Articles

ДЕРЖАВНА ПОЛІТИКА СТРУКТУРНОЇ ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЇ ЕКОНОМІКИ СТАРОПРОМИСЛОВИХ РЕГІОНІВ УКРАЇНИ В ПЕРІОД ПОВОЄННОГО ВІДНОВЛЕННЯ

Проблема розвитку регіонів, які в умовах втрати ваги індустріальних чинників економічного зростання потерпають від економічного спаду, є в полі уваги сучасної регіональної політики на світовому, зокрема європейському, рівні. Структурні трансформації у таких регіонах відбуваються з урахуванням вимог постіндустріального суспільства за рахунок комплексного застосування інструментів регіональної, структурної та промислової політики. Для України вирішення проблем розвитку таких регіонів потребує оновлення концепту державної політики, заснованого на врахуванні глобальних економічних тенденцій зміни принципів розміщення продуктивних сил; посиленні інституційного впливу на специфічні властивості регіонів (ендогенну депресивність, структурну і соціальну інертність); підвищенні ступеня інклюзивності регіональних ринків праці, забезпеченні вбудовування регіональних економік у світові ланцюжки доданої вартості на засадах неоіндустріалізації. Упровадження оновленого концепту структурних трансформацій старопромислових регіонів є важливим у межах реалізації загального Плану післявоєнного відновлення економіки України. Сформовані рекомендації із забезпечення ефективних структурних змін у старопромислових регіонах України на підставі оновленого концепту державної політики стосуються усунення проблемних моментів державної регіональної та галузевої політик і покращення їх скоординованості між собою. Основними шляхами модернізації економіки регіонів на засадах запропонованого концептуального підходу визначено вдосконалення вітчизняного інституційного забезпечення регіонального розвитку; подолання недосконалості та нестабільності галузевого законодавства (зокрема, у сфері реструктуризації вугільної галузі); урахування особливостей структурної трансформації старопромислових регіонів у політиці післявоєнної відбудови економіки України.

Does fiscal consolidation hurt economic growth? Empirical evidence from Spanish regions

Abstract This article brings empirical evidence on the effect of fiscal consolidation in decentralized countries. The focus on Spain is justified by three reasons. First, it is one of the OECD countries most affected by the Great recession in terms of both GDP and public deficit. Second, Spain is one of the most decentralized countries in the world. Third, compliance with fiscal consolidation targets has been very diverse across regions. Using both time series econometrics and the Synthetic Control Method approach (SCM), we show that compliance with fiscal targets at the regional level has not involved lower GDP growth rates in the short-run. Openness and economic integration of regional economies involve that fiscal multipliers tend to fade. Hence, while a fiscal stimulus would not work on this scale, the opposite is also true: the potentially negative demand effects of a stronger regional fiscal consolidation strategy would be exported to other regions.

Catalytic Function of Coastal Economy Development on Inland Economy

Bai, J. and Zheng, P.-F., 2019. Catalytic function of coastal economy development on inland economy. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 727–731. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.China is striving to realize the regional integration development of coastal and inland economies. It is a key strategy for economic development at present stage in China. To scientifically lead the synergetic development of regional economy integration, this paper attempts to analyze and conclude the driving forces the coastal economy can play on the inland economy from the theoretical and practical perspectives. Based on the theories of port-Hinterland interaction and regional division of labor, it is investigated about how the economies in coastal port and inland cities in Liaoning Province are developing now. With data of GDPs and location quotient available for real cases as reference, the interactive synergy between coastal and inland community economies is measured quantitatively using the Logistic model in an attempt to conclude the push-pull powers between the two with the marginal and elastic analysis. In addition, a synergistic development strategy is also made for coastal and inland community economies. A quantitative and qualitative study is indeed significant for leading the synthetic development of regional economies.

Intellectual potential for the Arctic ecosystem development

The level of the society human capital development in new technological order becomes the determining parameter of successful development. Glocalization processes are growing against the background of globalization, ensuring the integration of regional economies into technological and financial chains. The development of the continental and marine Arctic is accelerating. The most effective and environmentally safe development will take place in technologically advanced ecosystems that have created a favorable institutional environment. Both these factors depend on the level of human capital development. Only the country (region), which makes efforts for the purposeful formation of human capital, has the opportunity to steadily develop the Arctic and benefit from it. In connection with climatic, conjuncture and technological challenges, the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation will face serious challenges in the coming years. Responding to challenges of the XXI century, rapid and effective mobilization of scientific and technological initiatives accompanied with the search for talent and active entrepreneurs are required. Regional personnel initiative will raise the level of human capital, which is especially important in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. It should be noted that not a single Arctic region of Russia currently possesses technological capabilities, scientific and research potential, entrepreneurial initiative and finances necessary for a scientific and technological breakthrough. In rare cases some are able to offer sustainable, advanced and demanded scientific-technological and technical solutions. The proposed regional personnel initiative is aimed at outstripping the increase in the general (regional and attracted) intellectual potential that will ensure the development of Arctic ecosystem.

A comparative study of regional strategies of Northeast Asian countries

After the global financial crisis in 2008, the US and Europe have experienced anemic economic growth, whereas Northeast Asia has become the most economically dynamic region worldwide. The region faced such challenges as rapid economic globalization and regional economic integration, in-depth adjustment of global economic and trade patterns, the Obama administration’s “Asian Pivot” strategy, and domestic economic transformations. To address these challenges, Northeast Asian countries put forward development plans and regional strategies: Japan’s “Abenomics” since 2012; China’s “Silk Road Economic Belt” and “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” since 2013; South Korea’s “Eurasian Initiative” proposed by President Park Geun-hye in 2013; Mongolia’s “Prairie Road” Plan since 2014; “Eurasian Economic Union” led by Russia since 2015; the TPP revived by Japan as CPTPP after the US withdrawal; and the “New North” policy proposed by South Korea’s newly-elected president Moon Jae-in in 2017. These projects reflect the countries’ determination to play a more active role in the bilateral and multilateral cooperation in the region. The regional strategies are shaped by each country’s specific economic conditions, geopolitical and diplomatic needs. Although these strategies are somewhat competitive in such aspects as resources and influence, they also offer more prospects for cooperation and integration of regional economies.

Asset servicing at a second-tier financial centre: Framing embeddedness through mechanisms of the firm-territory nexus

The integration of regional economies within multi-location firm networks, and the development effects stemming from such integration, is recognised as a critical but deeply complex research area (Dicken and Malmberg, 2001). In this paper, with Edinburgh’s asset servicing activities providing an empirical context, a conceptual framework is developed that points to an initial suite of mechanisms that may underpin the firm-territory nexus. By doing this, a revised perspective on how territorial and network embeddedness overlap, is given. Recognising the heterogeneous nature of head office-branch and subsidiary relationships - which asset servicing functions are ultimately inscribed in - this paper shows how the local economic and institutional contexts present in Edinburgh mesh and jostle with the co-ordinating dynamics of the global financial services sector.

Optimizing the Transportation Network Layout of Qinghai Province to Strengthen Synthetically Development of the Tourism Industry in Western Regions of China

Regional comprehensive transportation system, dependence and expression form of regional economy integration, is the foundation of the regional economy overall coordination development and giving full play to the regional economic potential. Optimizing the transportation network layout in Qinghai province will further drive the vertical development of the tourism industry in the western region of China, promote the horizontal communication of cultural landscapes, show the features of religious culture, form the tourism core competitiveness, thus produce the integrative tourism industry of regional space combination, and overall promote comprehensive developments of the western tourism industry.

Study of Enterprise Strategic Combination in Jinan-Dezhou Regional Based on Supply Chain Partnership

Under background of economic globalization, urban and the local competition will be inflected on the regional economy integration’s advancement and the level. On the respect of region cooperation, Shandong Province proposes the policy to construct the central urban circle which is centered on Jinan. Therefore, it is necessary to speed up to sign the agreement “Jinan-Dezhou with the city” .The formation of Jinan-Dezhou with the city must be economy integration of two cites firstly. This paper focuses on coal industry which can cause fast fusion of two cities’ economy in the energy field, because the coal industry is the life gate to the Jinan Major industry’s development, simultaneously it is also Dezhou city’s superior industry. Moreover, these enterprises base on the same supply chain, and they can reach the cooperative agreement or form strategy combination quickly. When discussing concrete questions, the paper applies analysis to the coal enterprise. First, it elaborates significance of the physical distribution enterprise's conformity under the supply chain pattern. Next, it states inevitability of the supply chain strategy choice of coal group enterprise conformity under the market mechanism. Then, it proposes the “three centralisms” management pattern in the coal group enterprise. Last, it designs the supplied chain management pattern in the coal group business events flow.

Study of Enterprise Strategic Combination in Jinan-Dezhou Regional Based on Supply Chain Partnership

Under background of economic globalization, urban and the local competition will be inflected on the regional economy integration’s advancement and the level. On the respect of region cooperation, Shandong Province proposes the policy to construct the central urban circle which is centered on Jinan. Therefore, it is necessary to speed up to sign the agreement “Jinan-Dezhou with the city” .The formation of Jinan-Dezhou with the city must be economy integration of two cites firstly. This paper focuses on coal industry which can cause fast fusion of two cities’ economy in the energy field, because the coal industry is the life gate to the Jinan Major industry’s development, simultaneously it is also Dezhou city’s superior industry. Moreover, these enterprises base on the same supply chain, and they can reach the cooperative agreement or form strategy combination quickly. When discussing concrete questions, the paper applies analysis to the coal enterprise. First, it elaborates significance of the physical distribution enterprise's conformity under the supply chain pattern. Next, it states inevitability of the supply chain strategy choice of coal group enterprise conformity under the market mechanism. Then, it proposes the “three centralisms” management pattern in the coal group enterprise. Last, it designs the supplied chain management pattern in the coal group business events flow.

AN ESTIMATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONTAINER SHIPPING TRANSPORT VOLUMES AMONG ASIAN COUNRTIES BY GLOBAL TRADE ANALYSIS PROJECT MODEL AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO FTA AND TRANSPORT IMPROVEMENT SCENARIOS

While the regional economy integration has recently attracted much interest, its impact on the rapidly developing international marine transport industry is a major concern. This paper proposes a method for estimating the international container cargo OD flows under various hypothetical FTA memberships and transport technical progress by incorporating the GTAP model, which uses the applied general equilibrium theory to conduct the quantitative analyses of international trade issues. The effects under the FTA scenarios and transport technical progress scenarios on the selected countries' economy, social welfare, trade amounts and container OD flows are discussed. Since this method provides an approach for estimating the OD flows on a national wide level, it can be utilized for assessing the policy effects on international trade and transportation. Therefore, it is also an important step for demand forecasting such as the volume of container handling and transshipment on the international container shipping transport networks.

Major problems of sustainable development along the bank area of the Changjiang River

Developing the Changjiang (Yangtze) River and building a developed economic zone along the bank area of the Changjiang River is a great strategic decision of the national macroeconomic development distribution. This decision has both given an impetus to fast development of the regional economy and exacerbated the contradiction among economy and resources and environment. In this paper, some major problems existing in economic sustainable development, such as scattered industrial structure, duplicated construction of the great projects, enlarging the development gap of the regional economy and deteriorated environment etc., have been studied. The results show that scattered structure and duplicated distribution of some key industries and projects, especially automobile, electronics and petrochemical industry and communication, power installations, is one of the reasons for low industrial economic benefit; the great development gap among upper, middle and lower reaches areas are enlarging since the 1990’s; soil erosion, flood disaster and environmental pollution are still exacerbating due to unreasonable over-development. Based on the above analysis, this paper brings out some countermeasures and proposals for increasing the ability of regional sustainable development, including transregional reorganization of industrial structure linking by assets and speeding the process of regional economy integration; gradually controlling and reducing the development gap among upper, middle and lower reaches areas through regional cooperation on a mutually beneficial basis; as well as strengthening ecological construction and environmental protection and increasing environmental bearing capacity etc.

Petty craft production and the underdevelopment process in Zinder, Republic of Niger

Studies of the products of West African plastic arts, their aesthetic qualities and sym? bolism, abound. Analyses of marketing systems in West Africa, both pre-colonial and modern, have also received considerable attention [11. However, comparatively few in-depth studies of the social organization of nineteenth cen? tury craft production in West Africa exist [2]. Rarer still are analyses of the changing struc? tures of craft production brought about through the integration of regional economies into the world market economy [3]. This paper reports on preliminary research on the impact of the modern capitalist economy upon petty commodity production in Zinder, a regional capital in the Republic of Niger. Research was conducted in two phases. Archival materials, provided by the Planning Department in Zinder, and the Mayor's Office, enabled a ward-by-ward census of the artisanal population for the years 1971 and 1977. Sub? sequently I interviewed ten percent of these