TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring Regional Economic Resilience across Europe: Operationalising a complex concept
AU - Sensier, Marianne
AU - Bristow, Gillian
AU - Healy, Adrian
N1 - This work was supported by an ESPON project ‘Economic Crises: Resilience of Regions’ [grant number 2013/1/25].The ESPON project bought the data from Cambridge Econometrics and a web-link is in the article to their web-site but we cannot share this data.
PY - 2016/1/21
Y1 - 2016/1/21
N2 - This paper describes an approach developed to measure regional economic resilience across Europe which is novel in three key dimensions. Firstly, it seeks to date regional downturns as opposed to assuming that all regional economies are affected by economic shocks at the same point in time; secondly, it measures the amplitude and duration of economic downturns and subsequent recoveries; and thirdly, as well as measuring recovery, it measures the resistance of regional economies to economic shocks. The paper applies this methodology to selected European countries to provide an analysis of differential regional responses to several economic shocks since the early 1990s. The paper then reflects upon the utility of this methodology for operationalizing regional economic resilience in cross-comparative studies.
AB - This paper describes an approach developed to measure regional economic resilience across Europe which is novel in three key dimensions. Firstly, it seeks to date regional downturns as opposed to assuming that all regional economies are affected by economic shocks at the same point in time; secondly, it measures the amplitude and duration of economic downturns and subsequent recoveries; and thirdly, as well as measuring recovery, it measures the resistance of regional economies to economic shocks. The paper applies this methodology to selected European countries to provide an analysis of differential regional responses to several economic shocks since the early 1990s. The paper then reflects upon the utility of this methodology for operationalizing regional economic resilience in cross-comparative studies.
KW - Resilience; European regions; economic shocks; recovery
U2 - 10.1080/17421772.2016.1129435
DO - 10.1080/17421772.2016.1129435
M3 - Article
SN - 1742-1772
SP - 128
EP - 151
JO - Spatial Economic Analysis
JF - Spatial Economic Analysis
ER -