Judit Berkes

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Publications - 9

The firm geography of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans

Szilárd Rácz Ildikó Egyed Ádám Páthy Judit Berkes

Publication Name: Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis

Publication Date: 2025-01-01

Volume: 17

Issue: 1

Page Range: 5-35

Description:

Over the past three decades, significant socio-economic transformations have reshaped the post-socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. This study examines the geography of firms with over 10 employees across 15 countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slova-kia, and Slovenia. Using data from over 300,000 firms, the analysis focused on firm size categories, turnover, and activity distribution. The research highlighted disparities between post-socialist and other countries, and it employed descriptive statistics and the framework of agglomeration economies to uncover nuanced spatial patterns. The findings revealed significant differences in business concentration and the functions of small and medium-sized cities, particularly in the regions without a European-scale metropolis, emphasising their role in regional economic and demographic sustainability.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.37043/JURA.2025.17.1.1

Spatial spread of pandemics – Spatial relations of the five wave of the Covid-19 pandemic on the example of Győr-Moson-Sopron County

Szabolcs Morvay Judit Berkes Zsolt Szakály Szentes Veronika

Publication Name: Statisztikai Szemle

Publication Date: 2023-01-01

Volume: 101

Issue: 8

Page Range: 739-755

Description:

Many disciplines deal with the analysis of the spread of epidemics (or pandemics). Spatial relations and regional inequalities are the determining variables of the intensity, extent and severity of the spread of an epidemic, so it is essential to investigate epidemics from a regional perspective. Mathematical, statistical, network, and spatial simulation models can be used in spatial analysis for investigating the spread of epidemics. In this study, statistical methods are used as a basis. A possible way to reduce the severity of epidemics – be it health or economic effects – is to slow down the intensity of the spread. To this end, we carried out the retrospective study and examined the Győr-Moson-Sopron county during the period when the pandemic caused by the Covid-19 coronavirus was most intense in our country, just as it was in most countries of the world, too.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.20311/stat2023.08.hu0739

THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE HUNGARIAN NUTS3 REGIONS BETWEEN 2010-2020

Tamás Dusek Judit Berkes

Publication Name: Deturope

Publication Date: 2023-01-01

Volume: 15

Issue: 2

Page Range: 85-108

Description:

The aim of the study is to analyse the changes in the socio-economic performance of Hungarian regions in the previous decade. The first part of the paper deals with the epistemological and methodological questions of the analysis of temporal change of spatial differences of various individual and composite socio-economic indicators. In the second part the empirical analysis will be conducted at the county level (NUTS 3 level, 20 spatial units), including a wide range of economic, social and demographic variables. The analysis is concerned with processes over an eleven-year period, 2010-2020. Our methodology combines the analysis of individual indicators with the use of complex aggregated indicators composed of several indicators. Some of the counties show higher level of socio-economic performance with more developed infrastructure, higher quality of education and stronger economic base. However, the picture is not entirely uniform, there are small, moderately positive and negative movements compared to the national average.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.32725/DET.2023.014

EDITORIAL: Cities, Regions and Borders in Central and Eastern Europe

Szilárd Rácz Ildikó Egyed Judit Berkes

Publication Name: Deturope

Publication Date: 2023-01-01

Volume: 15

Issue: 2

Page Range: 6-8

Description:

No description provided

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.32725/DET.2023.009

TWENTY YEARS OF THE HUNGARIAN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION IN NUMBERS

Zsuzsanna Zsibók Judit Berkes

Publication Name: Deturope

Publication Date: 2022-01-01

Volume: 14

Issue: 3

Page Range: 144-161

Description:

This study is a retrospect on the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Hungarian Regional Science Association. Our aim is to provide a brief but comprehensive overview of these two decades in the light of quantifiable facts and results. We use document analysis and statistical descriptive methods in order to present a compact picture of the history of the Association's development. The results of our analysis confirm the impression that the Association, after a consistent building process, is characterised by stability, and it offers a wide range of perspectives for professional cooperation between the representatives of regional science

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.32725/DET.2022.026

Households’ electricity consumption in hungarian urban areas

Szigeti Cecília Judit Berkes Ferenc Bakó

Publication Name: Energies

Publication Date: 2021-05-02

Volume: 14

Issue: 10

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

The aim of this study is to examine the factors influencing the electricity consumption of urban households and to prove these with statistically significant results. The study includes 46 small and medium-sized towns in Hungary. The methodology of the study is mainly provided by a model that can be used for this purpose; however, the results obtained with the traditional regression method are compared with the results of another, more complex estimation method, the artificial neural network, which has the advantage of being able to use different types of models. The focus of our article is on methodological alignment, not necessarily the discovery of new results. Certain demographic characteristics significantly determine the energy demand of a household sector in a municipality. In this case, as the ratio of people aged 60 or over within a city rises by 1%, the urban household average energy consumption decreases by 61 kilowatt hours, and when it rises by 1%, the amount of pollutants expelled from urban households’ average energy consumption may decrease by 22.8745 kg. The research area of our paper was greatly influenced by the availability of the statistical data. The results can be used in the planning of urban developments.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3390/en14102899

Highly qualified social strata in urban areas of Hungarian regional centres from 1980 to 2011

Judit Berkes

Publication Name: Regional Statistics

Publication Date: 2021-01-01

Volume: 11

Issue: 4

Page Range: 126-147

Description:

This study investigates the spatial concentration of highly qualified strata using statistical indicators and Representation of highly qualified social strata means the spatial concentration of groups with higher social status education level, foreign language professional skills, and employment level) in not coincide with mainstream definitions of interaction and networks between social groups). According the most basic assumptions of the complex city concept, settlements with urban status are much more complex in economic, social, and technical structure and their network relations and interactions than settlements that have not been declared as cities. Simultaneously, the difference in social composition between cities and other settlements cannot be disputed because the concentration of economic resources and activities and the potential of employment and the fact that higher income attracts skilled workers to the cities and their catchment areas; all of these resulting in a higher proportion of highly qualified social strata. To meet the increasing needs of the global society and results of the transition to a market economy and globalization processes, a wider range of services are emerging, so the workforce is also significant differentiation, causing changes in the characteristics and composition of society. This paper attempts to study these processes exploring the dynamic trends of change in the spatial distribution of the examined groups. The author is looking for answers to questions such as how this aspect measured? Is there a difference in the structure of the society of urban centres and their catchment areas been a change in the spatial-social characterristics of urban areas over the decades?

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.15196/RS110406

The Economic Structure and Performance of the Catchment Area of the Hungarian Regional Centers

Judit Berkes

Publication Name: Deturope

Publication Date: 2020-01-01

Volume: 12

Issue: 3

Page Range: 58-81

Description:

This study examines the economic structure and performance of urban catchment areas. The five largest Hungarian regional centers are a traditional part of the Hungarian city network, as they are the five most populous cities after Budapest. The approach of territorial research is increasingly focused on the fact that the city as a center should not be studied without its immediate surroundings (agglomeration, region, catchment area). This study also keeps this in mind. The data were processed for the period between 1992 and 2015, on the basis of which the change can also be examined. Development trajectories show very different tendencies; Győr operates the catchment area as a strong center, while the surroundings of Pécs became fragmented due to the weakness of the center. Miskolc is characterized by a stagnant area, where the operation of another sub-center is very intensive, thus improving economic performance. Szeged is a solid center, whose catchment area is stabilized by several substations. The area of Debrecen is divided, the center is not able to energize its area.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.32725/det.2020.022

The most important city development initiatives of Hungary

János Rechnitzer Bálint Filep Judit Berkes

Publication Name: Regional Statistics

Publication Date: 2019-01-01

Volume: 9

Issue: 2

Page Range: 20-44

Description:

Recently, Hungary's urban development issues have been gaining increasing attention, while directions and institutional frameworks of regional politics are in a constant change. In this context, the study discusses the contents and connotations that can be linked to the territorial concept of major Hungarian cities; it also examines the changes in the position of these cities in the urban system. Major cities have a key role in territorial development as they facilitate spatial processes, and hence it is crucial to identify the weight and directions these centres with complex functions represent in development concepts. The formation or even restructuring of spatial processes require time. Since the democratic transition in 1989-1990, different development directions were assigned to major cities in short cycles. Cities have failed to adapt to these ever-changing objectives. The first part of this study presents the layers of the concept of major cities and characterize such categories as regional centre, city, county seat, and city with county rights. The second part tries to locate these centres, exploring changes in their developmental emphases, and also identifies pathways in the frequently changing territorial politics of the posttransition period.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.15196/RS090204