The Determinants of Economic Resilience. The Case of Eastern European Regions

Florin Oprea, Mihaela Onofrei, Dan Lupu (), Georgeta Vintila and Gigel Paraschiv
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Florin Oprea: Department of Finance, Money and Public Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, 700506 Iasi, Romania
Mihaela Onofrei: Department of Finance, Money and Public Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, 700506 Iasi, Romania
Georgeta Vintila: Department of Finance, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 6 Piata Romana, 010374 Bucharest, Romania
Gigel Paraschiv: Faculty of Biotechnical Systems Engineering, Polytechnic University, 060042 Bucharest, Romania

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 10, 1-11

Abstract: The economic crisis of 2008 strongly affected European countries, many of them slipping into a recession whose depth and manifestation differed substantially from country to country and from region to region. In this context, economists revived the concept of economic resilience of states and regions and focused on identifying and explaining its determinants. The literature investigates ways to enhance economic resilience through appropriate public policies, but the studies conducted so far have several limitations. In order to contribute to this goal, this article analyzes the economic resilience of the regions of seven Eastern European countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) and its main determinant factors. The results show that, in terms of resistance, Bulgaria, Slovenia and their regions behaved best, while Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia (including regions) had a negative evolution. In terms of recovery Bulgaria (and 4 regions out of 6), Romania (5 out of 8 regions) and Slovakia (4 of 4 regions) performed better than the other Eastern countries. The determining factors of resilience for the studied regions concern the size of the manufacturing sector, the services and public administration, entrepreneurship and the human capital represented by tertiary education; agriculture and urban population have no significant influence on regional resilience. We adopt an econometric approach in this study, using the quantile regression for the analysis. Based on these empirical evidences, appropriate proposals have been formulated, useful to both field theorists and practitioners in public policy.

Keywords: Eastern European regions; resistance; recovery; quantile regression; 2008–2009 financial crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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